Prayers that cite Scripture / edited by James L. Kugel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kugel, James L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament.

Judaism--Liturgy--History--To 1500.

Judaism.

Bible. Old Testament--Liturgical use.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Quotations.

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew--History and criticism.

Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew.

Judaism--Liturgy.

History.

Genre:

Quotations.

Physical Description:

v, 119 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2006.

Summary:

In the beginning, prayers were straightforward: people turned to God and asked for help. By the closing centuries of the biblical period, however, a change became observable. Prayers now began to include references to Scripture--allusions to biblical stories in which God had answered a prayer, or the evocation of specific biblical passages, or the recycling of biblical phrases in the creation of a new prayer. This process, the \"Scripturalization of prayer, \" grew in intensity and refinement as Judaism moved from the biblical period to early post-biblical times. It is attested throughout the prayers found in the biblical apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and early piyyut, and it continued apace in the liturgical compositions of the Geonic period and still later times. This collection of essays seeks to chart the main lines of the Scripturalization of prayer over this entire period.

Contents:

Scripturalization of prayer / James L. Kugel

Scripturalization of prayer in exilic and Second Temple Judaism / Judith H. Newman

Scripture and prayer in "The words of the luminaries" / Esther G. Chazon

Role of biblical verses in prayer according to the rabbinic tradition / Shlomo Naeh

Liturgical uses of the Book of Psalms in the geonic period / Robert Brody

Use of biblical verses in Hebrew liturgical poetry / Shulamit Elizur

From the material to the spiritual: scriptural allusions and their development in Judeo-Arabic liturgical poetry / Joseph Yahalom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0674019717

9780674019713

OCLC:

63122889