Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
JER'EMIE, THE EPISTLE OF, is the title of a pretended letter from the prophet Jeremiah appended to the Apocryphal book of Baruch. It purports to be a warning from him to the captives in Babylon against idolatry. Its style is rhetorical. It is an imitation of Jer 10:1-16. The author is unknown.