Ancient Jewish prayers and emotions : emotions associated with Jewish prayer in and around the Second Temple period / edited by Stefan C. Reif and Renate Egger-Wenzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Egger-Wenzel, Renate

Contributor:

Reif, Stefan C., 1944- editor.

Egger-Wenzel, Renate, editor.

Series:

Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; Volume 26.

Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies, 1865-1666 ; Volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Emotions.

Prayer--Judaism.

Prayer.

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

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Stefan C. Reif, St John's College, University of Cambridge, Großbritannien;Renate Egger-Wenzel, Universität Salzburg, Österreich.

Summary:

Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that surrounded them.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

Contents

The Place of Prayer in Early Judaism / Reif, Stefan C.

Moments of Joy and Lasting Happiness / Abart, Christine

"Sounding Trumpets with Loud Shouts" Emotional Responses to Temple Building: Ezra and Esdras / Troyer, Kristin De

Adjusting the Narrative Emotions and the Prayer of Moses (Jub 1:19-21) / Paganini, Simone M.

Emotions in Jerusalem's Prayer: Baruch and Lamentations / Elßner, Thomas R.

Prayer and Emotion in the Septuagint of Esther / Ego, Beate

1 Maccabees: Emotions of Life and Death in Narrative and Lament / Duggan, Michael W.

Praying to God Passionately: Notes on the Emotions in 2 Maccabees / Reiterer, Friedrich V.

Emotions in the Prayer of Sir 22:27-23:6 / Calduch-Benages, Núria

Emotions in the Prayers of the Wisdom of Solomon / Witte, Markus

Judith and Holofernes: An Analysis of the Emotions in the Killing Scene (Jdt 12:10-13:9) / Schmitz, Barbara

Sarah's Grief to Death (Tob 3:7-17) / Egger-Wenzel, Renate

The Prayer of Susanna (Daniel 13) / Marx, Dalia

Language, Prayer and Prophecy: 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Corinthians / Ben-Dov, Jonathan

From Emotions to Legislation: Asenath's Prayer and Rabbinic Literature / Lavee, Moshe

Emotions and Expressions of Emotion as a Didactic Guide as to How to Pray: Berakhot in the Aramaic Prayers of Qumran / Schattner-Rieser, Ursula

A Phenomenological Study of Penitential Elements and Their Strategic Arousal of Emotion in the Qumran Hodayot (1QHa cols. 1[?]-8) / Harkins, Angela Kim

The Centrality of Prayer and Stability of Trust. An Analysis of the Hymn of the Maskil in 1QS IX, 25b-XI, 15a / Gayer, Asaf

Prayer and Emotion in Mark 14:32-42 and Related Texts / Wischmeyer, Oda

Κράζειν and the Concept of "Emotional Prayer" in Earliest Christianity: Rom 8:15 and Acts 7:60 in Their Context(s) / Becker, Eve-Marie

Index of subjects

Index of references

Index of persons

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

9783110369083

3110369087

9783110386080

3110386089

OCLC:

933333191