Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets : : On Prayer and Praying in Second Temple Judaism /

Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets : : On Prayer and Praying in Second Temple Judaism / / ed. by Timothy J. Sandoval, Ariel Feldman.

This volume contributes to the growing interest in understanding the phenomenon of prayer and praying in the Hebrew Bible, Early Judaism, and nascent Christianity. Papers by the leading scholars in these fields revisit long-standing questions and chart new paths of inquiry into the nature, form, and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Brooke, George J.,
Carter, Warren,
Feldman, Ariel,
Frolov, Serge,
Hempel, Charlotte,
Henze, Matthias,
Kaplan, Jonathan,
Levison, John R.,
Matthews, Shelly,
Newsom, Carol A.,
Sandoval, Timothy J.,
Zahn, Molly M.,
HerausgeberIn:
Feldman, Ariel,
Sandoval, Timothy J.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 524
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources
  • Introduction
  • Pastiche, Hyperbole, and the Composition of Jonah’s Prayer
  • Psalms: Sitz im Leben vs. Sitz in der Literatur
  • “If I had said …” (Ps 73:15): Retrospective Introspection in Didactic Psalmody of the Second Temple Period
  • Agur’s Words to God in Proverbs 30 and Prayerful Study in the Second Temple Period
  • Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • The Apotropaic Function of the Final Hymn in the Community Rules
  • The Absence of Prayer in the Temple Scroll
  • On Amulets, Apotropaic Prayers, and Phylacteries: The Contribution of Three New Texts from the Judean Desert
  • Prayer in 2 Baruch
  • The Prayers of Eve in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve
  • “I Have Prayed for You ... Strengthen Your Brothers” (Luke 22:32): Jesus’s Proleptic Prayer for Peter and Other Gendered Tropes in Luke’s War on Satan
  • Praying the Lord’s Prayer in (Some Sort of) Tameion (Matt 6:6)
  • Ancient Sources Index
  • Subject Index

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