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Biblical Prose Prayer
Author | : Moshe Greenberg |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781725222465 |
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Some degree of spiritual enlightenment must be supposed to account for the overall tolerance, even receptivity, of the people; though they refused to comply with the prophets' uncompromising demands, and occasionally persecuted one or another of them, as a rule they allowed them to preach, and even spawned devotees who reverently preserved their speeches until canonization. Unsupported by power and wealth, the classical prophets can have persisted for centuries only because they were rooted in loamy spiritual soil. The populace constituting that soil deserves to be appreciated no less than the exotic flowers that towered above it. What was the spiritual loam that prepared Israel's soil so that prophecy could thrive in it? Any answer to this question must give due consideration to the popular life of prayer. For it was in extemporized praying that the Israelites experienced a nonmagical approach to God in which form was subordinate to content; here, in immediate contact with a God who "searched the conscience and the heart," they were sensitized to sincerity in self-disclosure to God; and, finally, it was in prayer that they had constantly to face the issue of adjusting their ways to God's in order to obtain his favor. Greenberg finds in this rich life of private prayer a setting for the high religious ideas--and the scathing critique of worship--which characterized the "genius" of the prophets of the eighth and ninth centuries BC. This masterful evaluation of biblical prose prayer, a tradition independent of experts and special places, suggests an explanation for the unprecedented democratization of worship in postbiblical Judaism.
Biblical Prose Prayer
Author | : Moshe Greenberg |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781556351112 |
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Some degree of spiritual enlightenment must be supposed to account for the overall tolerance, even receptivity, of the people; though they refused to comply with the prophets' uncompromising demands, and occasionally persecuted one or another of them, as a rule they allowed them to preach, and even spawned devotees who reverently preserved their speeches until canonization. Unsupported by power and wealth, the classical prophets can have persisted for centuries only because they were rooted in loamy spiritual soil. The populace constituting that soil deserves to be appreciated no less than the exotic flowers that towered above it. What was the spiritual loam that prepared Israel's soil so that prophecy could thrive in it? Any answer to this question must give due consideration to the popular life of prayer. For it was in extemporized praying that the Israelites experienced a nonmagical approach to God in which form was subordinate to content; here, in immediate contact with a God who searched the conscience and the heart, they were sensitized to sincerity in self-disclosure to God; and, finally, it was in prayer that they had constantly to face the issue of adjusting their ways to God's in order to obtain his favor. Greenberg finds in this rich life of private prayer a setting for the high religious ideas--and the scathing critique of worship--which characterized the genius of the prophets of the eighth and ninth centuries BC. This masterful evaluation of biblical prose prayer, a tradition independent of experts and special places, suggests an explanation for the unprecedented democratization of worship in postbiblical Judaism.
Discovering the Traditions of Prose Prayers in Early Jewish Literature
Author | : Michael D. Matlock |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567458100 |
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In this volume Michael D. Matlock analyses five lengthy biblical prose prayers from the exilic and post-exilic period: Solomon's prayer (1 Kings 8.14-61), Ezra's prayer (Ezra 9.5-15), Nehemiah's prayer (Nehemiah 1.4-11), the Levites' prayer (Nehemiah 9.4-37), and the prayer of Daniel (Daniel 9:3-19). He also examines prayers from Second Temple literature including texts from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the writings of Philo and Josephus and texts from Qumran, and discusses the Septuagintal versions of the five biblical prayers and Targum Jonathan's treatment of Solomon's prayer. He offers a new English translation of each prayer, examines the prayers' rhetorical characteristics, and demonstrates how each prayer draws upon and reinterprets traditional images and materials. Matlock describes how each prayer relates to its larger narrative context and examines its functions within that context. Finally, he appraises the various similarities and differences in these prayers in terms of their different contexts in the Second Commonwealth period noting particular theologies and ideologies.
Prayer in the Bible
Author | : Carlo Perez,Alexander Quiros-Castillo,Tom Martin |
Publsiher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Prayer |
ISBN | : 9780557155286 |
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Seeking the Favor of God The development of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Author | : Mark J. Boda,Daniel K. Falk,Rodney Alan Werline |
Publsiher | : Society of Biblical Lit |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781589832787 |
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Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Prayer in the Hebrew Bible
Author | : Samuel E. Balentine |
Publsiher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1993-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451418078 |
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Balentine invites the reader to consider several aspects of prayer in the Hebrew Bible: prayer and the depiction of character, prayer and the characterization of God, prayers for divine justice, the lament tradition, sensible praise, prayer in Old Testament theology, and the motif of the church as "a house of prayer".
Moses God and the Dynamics of Intercessory Prayer
Author | : Michael Widmer |
Publsiher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3161484231 |
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Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Durham, 2003.
Praying by the Book
Author | : Judith Hood Newman |
Publsiher | : Society of Biblical Literature |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : UOM:39015042963135 |
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