Patterns of daily prayer in Second Temple period Judaism / by Jeremy Penner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penner, Jeremy.

Series:

Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; 0169-9962 v. 104.

Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; v. 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer--Judaism--History.

Prayer.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Prayer--Judaism.

Physical Description:

259 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

In Patterns of Daily Prayer in Second Temple Period Judaism, Jeremy Penner seeks to uncover the historical and social processes that underlie the origins and development of Jewish daily prayer practices, particularly the establishment of set times for daily prayer. Since daily prayer lacks explicit biblical warrant, this book seeks to explain how this custom was legitimized as divinely inspired. The importance of daily prayer was understood and experienced within a range of literary and social contexts, and thus different exegetical and etiological strategies develop at this time to legitimize its practice. In some cases daily prayer was coordinated with, and made analogous to, daily cultic sacrifice, in other cases, daily prayer was legitimized by identifying the origins of the practice in sacred scripture. Lastly, in some contexts daily prayer was coordinated with the cycles of celestial bodies in the heavens. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Review of Scholarship 3

1.1 Fixed Prayer as a Gradual Development 5

1.2 Fixed Prayer as a Radical Innovation 19

1.3 Other Trends and Approaches to the Study of Prayer 25

2 Patterns of Daily Prayer in Second Temple Period Judaism: A Way Forward 28

I Sacrifice and Daily Prayer 35

1 Introduction 35

2 Spontaneous Prayer and Times of Sacrifice 37

2.1 Prayer in Sirach 50 45

3 Descriptions of Times of Prayer in the Psalms 48

4 Daily Prayer in the Temple 54

4.1 Priestly Prayer in M. Tamid 5.1 59

5 The Influence of the Temple in the Development of Daily Fixed Prayer 67

6 Conclusions 70

II Scripture and Daily Prayer 73

1 Introduction 73

2 Let. Arts. §158-160 75

3 Josephus, Ant. 4.212 81

4 1QS X 10, 13-14 87

5 Conclusions 97

III Luminary Cycles and Daily Prayer 101

1 Introduction 101

2 4Q504, 4Q506 103

2.1 Liturgical Features 104

2.2 A Daily Liturgy? 105

3 4Q503 107

3.1 Liturgical Features 108

3.2 Calendar: The Sequence of Prayers and Reckoning of Days 109

3.3 The Calendar in 4Q503 and Times of Prayer 115

3.4 Times of Prayer 116

3.5 Prayer with Angels 118

3.6 Provenance 123

4 4Q408 131

4.1 Times of Prayer 132

4.2 Prayer with Angels 133

4.3 Provenance 134

5 Conclusions 135

IV The Liturgical Calendar at 1QH^a XX 7-148 and 1QS IX 26b-X 8a 137

1 Introduction 137

2 1QH_a XX 7-14a 140

2.1 The Literary Structure of 1QH^a XX 7-10 141

3 1QS IX 26b-X 8a 147

3.1 The Literary Structure of 1QS X 1-3 149

4 The Redaction of the Calendar at 1QH^a XX 7-14a and 1QS IX 26b-X 8a 152

5 The Calendar at 1QH^a XX 7-14a and 1QS IX 26b-X 8a and the Daily Life of the Qumran Community 158

6 Conclusions 164

V Nocturnal Prayer 165

1 Introduction 165

1.1 Preliminary Remarks on the Anthropology of Sleep in the Ancient World 166

2 The Influence of Cosmology on Prayer 172

3 Prayers for Protection 180

3.1 Ps-Philo, L.A.B. 60:1-3 180

3.2 Jub. 12:16-27 182

3.3 11Q11V 184

3.4 4Q510-511: Were Prayers for Protection Routinized? 189

4 Nocturnal Praise 190

4.1 4Q503 190

4.2 1QH^a XXV 30-33 195

5 4Q334: A Liturgy for Praise or Protection? 198

5.1 Genre and Setting 200

6 Conclusions 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-240) and index.

ISBN:

9789004233072

9004233075

9789004230330

9004230335

OCLC:

801355437