The Prayer of Susanna (Daniel 13)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. The Place of Prayer in Early Judaism 1
5. Moments of Joy and Lasting Happiness 19
6. “Sounding Trumpets with Loud Shouts” Emotional Responses to Temple Building: Ezra and Esdras 41
7. Adjusting the Narrative Emotions and the Prayer of Moses (Jub 1:19–21) 59
8. Emotions in Jerusalem’s Prayer: Baruch and Lamentations 71
9. Prayer and Emotion in the Septuagint of Esther 83
10. 1 Maccabees: Emotions of Life and Death in Narrative and Lament 95
11. Praying to God Passionately: Notes on the Emotions in 2 Maccabees 117
12. Emotions in the Prayer of Sir 22:27–23:6 145
13. Emotions in the Prayers of the Wisdom of Solomon 161
14. Judith and Holofernes: An Analysis of the Emotions in the Killing Scene (Jdt 12:10–13:9) 177
15. Sarah’s Grief to Death (Tob 3:7–17) 193
16. The Prayer of Susanna (Daniel 13) 221
17. Language, Prayer and Prophecy: 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Corinthians 239
18. From Emotions to Legislation: Asenath’s Prayer and Rabbinic Literature 259
19. Emotions and Expressions of Emotion as a Didactic Guide as to How to Pray: B^erakhot in the Aramaic Prayers of Qumran 273
20. A Phenomenological Study of Penitential Elements and Their Strategic Arousal of Emotion in the Qumran Hodayot (1QH^a cols. 1[?]–8) 297
21. The Centrality of Prayer and Stability of Trust. An Analysis of the Hymn of the Maskil in 1QS IX, 25b–XI, 15a 317
22. Prayer and Emotion in Mark 14:32–42 and Related Texts 335
23. Κράζειν and the Concept of “Emotional Prayer” in Earliest Christianity: Rom 8:15 and Acts 7:60 in Their Context(s) 351
24. Index of subjects 369
25. Index of references 372
26. Index of persons 404