Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period / / ed. by Mika S. Pajunen, Jeremy Penner.

When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes t...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 486
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period
  • Part 1: Psalms, Prayers, and Embodied Religion
  • Towards a Cognitive Theory of Blessing: The Dead Sea Scrolls as a Test Case
  • The Imprecatory Features of Psalms of Solomon 4 and 12
  • Toward a Genealogy of the Introspective Self in Second Temple Judaism
  • The Function of Prayers of Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period
  • Part 2: Psalms, Prayers, and Penitential Themes
  • “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean”: Psalm 51, Penitential Piety, and Cultic Language in Axial Age Thinking
  • Prayer and Remembrance in 4QSapiential Work (4Q185)
  • Lamentations: Time and Setting
  • Part 3: Material Issues and the Ordering of Psalms and Prayers in Collections
  • Structure, Stichometry, and Standardization: An Analysis of Scribal Features in a Selection of the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls
  • Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence: Preliminary Observations and Questions
  • Did David Lay Down His Crown? Reframing Issues of Deliberate Juxtaposition and Interpretive Contexts in the “Book” of Psalms with Psalm 147 as a Case in Point
  • Part 4: Psalms, Prayers, and Prophecy
  • Psalms as Prophecy: Qumran Evidence for the Reading of Psalms as Prophetic Text and the Formation of the Canon
  • Exodus and Exile as Prototypes of Justice: Prophecies in the Psalms of Solomon and Barkhi Nafshi Hymns
  • Part 5: Psalms, Prayers, History and Identity
  • Those Who Pray Together Stay Together: The Role of Late Psalms in Creating Identity
  • Praying History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Memory, Identity, Fulfilment
  • Fathers and Sons: Family Ties in the Historical Psalms
  • Part 6: The Composition and Use of Psalms and Prayers
  • Speakers and Scenarios: Imagining the First Temple in Second Temple Psalms (Psalms 122 and 137)
  • Ben Sira’s Use of Various Psalm Genres
  • “There is no one righteous”: Paul’s Use of Psalms in Romans 3
  • Philippians 2:6–11 as a Christological Psalm from the 20th Century
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Ancient Sources
  • Index of Modern Authors