Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Abbreviations Including Frequently Cited Sources IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Pastiche, Hyperbole, and the Composition of Jonah’s Prayer 27
7. Psalms: Sitz im Leben vs. Sitz in der Literatur 43
8. “If I had said …” (Ps 73:15): Retrospective Introspection in Didactic Psalmody of the Second Temple Period 69
9. Agur’s Words to God in Proverbs 30 and Prayerful Study in the Second Temple Period 83
10. Patterns of Priesthood and Patterns of Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls 115
11. The Apotropaic Function of the Final Hymn in the Community Rules 131
12. The Absence of Prayer in the Temple Scroll 155
13. On Amulets, Apotropaic Prayers, and Phylacteries: The Contribution of Three New Texts from the Judean Desert 169
14. Prayer in 2 Baruch 199
15. The Prayers of Eve in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve 219
16. “I Have Prayed for You ... Strengthen Your Brothers” (Luke 22:32): Jesus’s Proleptic Prayer for Peter and Other Gendered Tropes in Luke’s War on Satan 231
17. Praying the Lord’s Prayer in (Some Sort of) Tameion (Matt 6:6) 247
18. Ancient Sources Index 267
19. Subject Index 279