Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period

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Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period

Edited by: Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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Volume 486 | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

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When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes the lived context within which these texts were composed and used. This volume is comprised of a collection of articles that explore the diverse settings in which psalms and prayers were used and circulated in the late Second Temple period.

The book includes essays by experts in the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, in which a wide variety of topics, approaches, and methods both old and new are utilized to explore the many functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period. Included in this volume are essays examining how psalms were read as prophecy, as history, as liturgy, and as literature. A variety methodologies are employed, and include the use of cognitive sciences and poetics, linguistic theory, psychology, redaction criticism, and literary theory.

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Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner, Faculty of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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"Zu einem wichtigen Themenbereich ein anregender, weiterführender Sammelband, dem Verbreitung und gute Aufnahme zu wünschen sind — und damit verbunden die Hoffnung, dass die Camps der biblischen und der nachbiblisch-antikjüdischen Erforschung von Psalmen und Gebeten stärker miteinander ins Gespräch finden."
Beate Weber in: Theologische Revue 114.4 (2018), 291-293

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period Eileen Schuller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
Part 1: Psalms, Prayers, and Embodied Religion
Towards a Cognitive Theory of Blessing: The Dead Sea Scrolls as a Test Case Jutta Jokiranta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
The Imprecatory Features of Psalms of Solomon 4 and 12 Rodney A. Werline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	48
Toward a Genealogy of the Introspective Self in Second Temple Judaism Carol A. Newsom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
The Function of Prayers of Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period Angela Kim Harkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	80
Part 2: Psalms, Prayers, and Penitential Themes
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean”: Psalm 51, Penitential Piety, and Cultic Language in Axial Age Thinking Else K. Holt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Prayer and Remembrance in 4QSapiential Work (4Q185) Ingunn Aadland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
Lamentations: Time and Setting Corinna Körting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Part 3: Material Issues and the Ordering of Psalms and Prayers in Collections
Structure, Stichometry, and Standardization: An Analysis of Scribal Features in a Selection of the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls Kipp Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence: Preliminary Observations and Questions Joseph L. Angel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
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 David Willgren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	212
Part 4: Psalms, Prayers, and Prophecy
Psalms as Prophecy: Qumran Evidence for the Reading of Psalms as Prophetic Text and the Formation of the Canon Jesper Høgenhaven Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Exodus and Exile as Prototypes of Justice: Prophecies in the Psalms of Solomon and Barkhi Nafshi Hymns Mika S. Pajunen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	252
Part 5: Psalms, Prayers, History and Identity
Those Who Pray Together Stay Together: The Role of Late Psalms in Creating Identity Marc Zvi Brettler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Praying History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Memory, Identity, Fulfilment George J. Brooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Fathers and Sons: Family Ties in the Historical Psalms Anja Klein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	320
Part 6: The Composition and Use of Psalms and Prayers
Speakers and Scenarios: Imagining the First Temple in Second Temple Psalms (Psalms 122 and 137) Adele Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	339
Ben Sira’s Use of Various Psalm Genres Marko Marttila Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	356
“There is no one righteous”: Paul’s Use of Psalms in Romans 3 Marika Pulkkinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	384
Philippians 2:6–11 as a Christological Psalm from the 20^th Century Årstein Justnes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	410
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425
Index of Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	467
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	501

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July 24, 2017

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9783110449266

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July 24, 2017

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9783110447743

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10

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506

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110449266

eBook ISBN: 9783110449266

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110447743

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Psalm; prayer; Second Temple period

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Scholars of Biblical studies, judaism, christianity, Second Temple Period, religion, liturgy, psalms and prayers.

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