The Function of Prayers of Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period 5
6. Part 1: Psalms, Prayers, and Embodied Religion
7. Towards a Cognitive Theory of Blessing: The Dead Sea Scrolls as a Test Case 25
8. The Imprecatory Features of Psalms of Solomon 4 and 12 48
9. Toward a Genealogy of the Introspective Self in Second Temple Judaism 63
10. The Function of Prayers of Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period 80
11. Part 2: Psalms, Prayers, and Penitential Themes
12. “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean”: Psalm 51, Penitential Piety, and Cultic Language in Axial Age Thinking 103
13. Prayer and Remembrance in 4QSapiential Work (4Q185) 122
14. Lamentations: Time and Setting 137
15. Part 3: Material Issues and the Ordering of Psalms and Prayers in Collections
16. Structure, Stichometry, and Standardization: An Analysis of Scribal Features in a Selection of the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls 153
17. Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence: Preliminary Observations and Questions 185
18. Did David Lay Down His Crown? Reframing Issues of Deliberate Juxtaposition and Interpretive Contexts in the “Book” of Psalms with Psalm 147 as a Case in Point 212
19. Part 4: Psalms, Prayers, and Prophecy
20. Psalms as Prophecy: Qumran Evidence for the Reading of Psalms as Prophetic Text and the Formation of the Canon 229
21. Exodus and Exile as Prototypes of Justice: Prophecies in the Psalms of Solomon and Barkhi Nafshi Hymns 252
22. Part 5: Psalms, Prayers, History and Identity
23. Those Who Pray Together Stay Together: The Role of Late Psalms in Creating Identity 277
24. Praying History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Memory, Identity, Fulfilment 305
25. Fathers and Sons: Family Ties in the Historical Psalms 320
26. Part 6: The Composition and Use of Psalms and Prayers
27. Speakers and Scenarios: Imagining the First Temple in Second Temple Psalms (Psalms 122 and 137) 339
28. Ben Sira’s Use of Various Psalm Genres 356
29. “There is no one righteous”: Paul’s Use of Psalms in Romans 3 384
30. Philippians 2:6–11 as a Christological Psalm from the 20^th Century 410
31. Bibliography 425
32. Index of Ancient Sources 467
33. Index of Modern Authors 501