Psalms, hymns, and prayers in late Second Temple Judaism / Eileen Schuller 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 / Else K. Holt 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 / Kipp Davis 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 / Jesper Høgenhaven Part 5. Psalms, prayers, history and identity ; Those who pray together stay together : the role of late psalms in creating identity / Marc Zvi Brettler 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) / Adele Berlin Part 1. Psalms, Prayers, and Embodied Religion ; Towards a cognitive theory of blessing : The Dead Sea Scrolls as a test case / Jutta Jokiranta The imprecatory features of Psalms of Solomon 4 and 12 / Rodney A. Werline Toward a genealogy of the introspective self in Second Temple Judaism / Carol Newsom The function of prayers of ritual mourning in the Second Temple Period / Angela Kim Harkins Prayer and remembrance in 4QSapiential work (4Q185) / Ingunn Aadland Lamentations : time and setting / Corinna Körting Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence : preliminary observations and questions / Joseph Angel 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 / David Willgren Exodus and exile as prototypes of justice : prophecies in the Psalms of Solomon and Barkhi Nafshi hymns / Mike S. Pajunen Praying history in the Dead Sea Scrolls : memory, identity, fulfilment / George J. Brooke Fathers and sons : family ties in the historical psalms / Anja Klein Ben Sira's use of various psalm genres / Marko Marttila "There is no one righteous" : Paul's use of Psalms in Romans 3 / Marika Pulkkinen Philippians 2:6-11 as a christological psalm from the 20th Century / Årstein Justness. | 
