My lips play flute for the Highest : Jewish hymns and prayers before Jesus / Torleif Elgvin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elgvin, Torleif, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer--Judaism.

Prayer.

Qumran community.

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

Jews.

Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Judaism.

Jewish hymns.

Judaism--Prayers and devotions.

Dead Sea scrolls.

Physical Description:

xx, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2024]

Summary:

"My Lips Play Flute for the Highest presents fifty-five poetic texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and other early Jewish writings: hymns, psalms, liturgies, petitions, visions, and end-time scenarios. In psalms and prayers we may come close to the souls of ancient Judeans, who pour out their sufferings, laments, hopes, and praises to their God. We encounter a plurality of end-time hopes, with or without messianic actors on earth. Jewish piety from the last two centuries before the turn of the era emerges vibrant and powerful, but also sensitive and full of hope. Introductions to the various scrolls and writings inform readers about how scholars understand these texts and where scholarship locates them in time and space. This book provides a moving and vital entry into early Judaism, before the emergence of the Jesus movement and rabbinic Judaism."--Publisher.

Contents:

What can we learn from early Jewish texts?

The significance of the texts today

The depositories and sources

Hymns of praise

Prayers of Israel

Prayers for Zion

Psalms of confidence

Longing for God

Revelation and illumination to the humble

The Lord's anointed

The end of days and the world to come.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1666770019

9781666770018

OCLC:

1477932050

Publisher Number:

90101417542