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

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Petitioners, Penitents, and Poets

On Prayer and Praying in Second Temple Judaism

Edited by: Timothy J. Sandoval and Ariel Feldman

Volume 524 in the series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110624526

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About this book

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 practice of addressing the divine in the ancient world.

The essays in this volume deal with particular texts of and about prayer, practices of prayer, as well as figures and locations (historical and literary) that are associated with prayer and praying. These studies apply a range of methods and theoretical approaches to prayer and the language of prayer in literatures of Early Judaism and Christianity. Some studies apply the classical methods of biblical studies to Second Temple texts of prayer, including form critical and text critical approaches; others engage in literary and narrative analysis of ancient works that recount discourse directed to the divine. Still other studies draw on anthropological and sociological analyses of prayer or marshal particular theories of discourse, ethics, and moral agency to offer fresh interpretations of address to God in the literature of Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity.

Author / Editor information

Ariel Feldman, Brite Divinity School, Timothy J. Sandoval, Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, TX, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Ariel Feldman and Timothy J. Sandoval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Pastiche, Hyperbole, and the Composition of Jonah’s Prayer Jonathan Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Psalms: Sitz im Leben vs. Sitz in der Literatur Serge Frolov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
“If I had said …” (Ps 73:15): Retrospective Introspection in Didactic Psalmody of the Second Temple Period Carol A. Newsom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Agur’s Words to God in Proverbs 30 and Prayerful Study in the Second Temple Period Timothy J. Sandoval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls George J. Brooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
The Apotropaic Function of the Final Hymn in the Community Rules Charlotte Hempel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
The Absence of Prayer in the Temple Scroll Molly M. Zahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
On Amulets, Apotropaic Prayers, and Phylacteries: The Contribution of Three New Texts from the Judean Desert Ariel Feldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Prayer in 2 Baruch Matthias Henze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
The Prayers of Eve in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve John R. Levison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
“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 Shelly Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Praying the Lord’s Prayer in (Some Sort of) Tameion (Matt 6:6) Warren Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Ancient Sources Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of the Bible, second temple Judaism, ancient religion, and textual criticism
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
- Tables: 24
Keywords: Prayer; petition; liturgy; Second Temple Judaism

eBook

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783110624526

Hardcover

Published: October 26, 2020
ISBN: 9783110620405