Early Jewish prayers in Greek / Pieter W. van der Horst and Judith H. Newman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horst, Pieter Willem van der.

Contributor:

Newman, Judith H. (Judith Hood), 1961-

Series:

Commentaries on early Jewish literature.

Commentaries on early Jewish literature, 1861-6003

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Liturgy--Texts--History and criticism.

Judaism.

Greek literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Judaism--Prayers and devotions--History and criticism.

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

Prayer--Judaism.

Prayer.

Jews--Civilization--Greek influences.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the past few decades a great amount of scholarly work has been done on the various prayer cultures of antiquity, both Graeco-Roman and Jewish and Christian. In Jewish studies this burgeoning research on ancient prayer has been stimulated particularly by the many new prayer texts found at Qumran, which have shed new light on several long-standing problems. The present volume intends to make a new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on ancient Jewish prayer texts by focusing on a limited set of prayer texts, scil. , a small number of those that have been preserved only in Greek. Jewish prayers in Greek tend to be undervalued, which is regrettable because these prayers shed light on sometimes striking aspects of early Jewish spirituality in the centuries around the turn of the era. In this volume twelve such prayers have been collected, translated, and provided with an extensive historical and philological commentary. They have been preserved on papyrus, on stone, and as part of Christian church orders into which some of them have been incorporated in a christianized from. For that reason these prayers are of great interest to scholars of both early Judaism and ancient Christianity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Preface

Abbreviations

I. The Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions

II. A Communal Prayer (Pap. Egerton 5)

III. A Prayer for Protection against Unclean Spirits (Pap. Fouad 203)

IV. A Prayer for Vengeance from Rheneia

V. The Prayer of Manasseh

VI. The Prayer of Azariah

VII. The Prayer of Jacob

VIII. Appendix: The Prayer of Joseph

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611990770

9781281990778

1281990779

9783110211122

3110211122

OCLC:

476275718