Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: Emotions associated with Jewish prayer in and around the Second Temple period

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Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions

Emotions associated with Jewish prayer in and around the Second Temple period

Edited by: Stefan C. Reif and Renate Egger-Wenzel

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 26 | Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies

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Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that surrounded them.

Author / Editor information

Stefan C. Reif, St John’s College, University of Cambridge, England;
Renate Egger-Wenzel, University of Salzburg, Austria.

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"In sum, we have received another very intriguing volume on the emotional aspect of the Second Temple prayer."
Zdzislaw J. Kapera in: The Qumran Chronicle 23, 2015, 170-171

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Preface Open Access Download PDF	V
Contents Open Access Download PDF	VII
The Place of Prayer in Early Judaism Stefan C. Reif Open Access Download PDF	1
Moments of Joy and Lasting Happiness Christine Abart Open Access Download PDF	19
“Sounding Trumpets with Loud Shouts” Emotional Responses to Temple Building: Ezra and Esdras Kristin De Troyer Open Access Download PDF	41
Adjusting the Narrative Emotions and the Prayer of Moses (Jub 1:19–21) Simone M. Paganini Open Access Download PDF	59
Emotions in Jerusalem’s Prayer: Baruch and Lamentations Thomas R. Elßner Open Access Download PDF	71
Prayer and Emotion in the Septuagint of Esther Beate Ego Open Access Download PDF	83
1 Maccabees: Emotions of Life and Death in Narrative and Lament Michael W. Duggan Open Access Download PDF	95
Praying to God Passionately: Notes on the Emotions in 2 Maccabees Friedrich V. Reiterer Open Access Download PDF	117
Emotions in the Prayer of Sir 22:27–23:6 Núria Calduch-Benages Open Access Download PDF	145
Emotions in the Prayers of the Wisdom of Solomon Markus Witte Open Access Download PDF	161
Judith and Holofernes: An Analysis of the Emotions in the Killing Scene (Jdt 12:10–13:9) Barbara Schmitz Open Access Download PDF	177
Sarah’s Grief to Death (Tob 3:7–17) Renate Egger-Wenzel Open Access Download PDF	193
The Prayer of Susanna (Daniel 13) Dalia Marx Open Access Download PDF	221
Language, Prayer and Prophecy: 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Corinthians Jonathan Ben-Dov Open Access Download PDF	239
From Emotions to Legislation: Asenath’s Prayer and Rabbinic Literature Moshe Lavee Open Access Download PDF	259
Emotions and Expressions of Emotion as a Didactic Guide as to How to Pray: B^erakhot in the Aramaic Prayers of Qumran Ursula Schattner-Rieser Open Access Download PDF	273
A Phenomenological Study of Penitential Elements and Their Strategic Arousal of Emotion in the Qumran Hodayot (1QH^a cols. 1[?]–8) Angela Kim Harkins Open Access Download PDF	297
The Centrality of Prayer and Stability of Trust. An Analysis of the Hymn of the Maskil in 1QS IX, 25b–XI, 15a Asaf Gayer Open Access Download PDF	317
Prayer and Emotion in Mark 14:32–42 and Related Texts Oda Wischmeyer Open Access Download PDF	335
Κράζειν and the Concept of “Emotional Prayer” in Earliest Christianity: Rom 8:15 and Acts 7:60 in Their Context(s) Eve-Marie Becker Open Access Download PDF	351
Index of subjects Open Access Download PDF	369
Index of references Open Access Download PDF	372
Index of persons Open Access Download PDF	404

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eBook published on:

November 13, 2015

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9783110369083

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November 13, 2015

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9783110374292

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eBook ISBN: 9783110369083

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Emotions; Prayers; Second Temple; Judaism

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Jewish Studies, Theology, Ancient Near East

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