van der Horst / Newman Early Jewish Prayers in Greek

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-021112-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature

During the past few decades a great amount of scholarly work has been done on the various prayer cultures of antiquity, both Graeco-Roman and Jewish and Christian. In Jewish studies this burgeoning research on ancient prayer has been stimulated particularly by the many new prayer texts found at Qumran, which have shed new light on several long-standing problems. The present volume intends to make a new contribution to the ongoing scholarly debate on ancient Jewish prayer texts by focusing on a limited set of prayer texts, scil., a small number of those that have been preserved only in Greek. Jewish prayers in Greek tend to be undervalued, which is regrettable because these prayers shed light on sometimes striking aspects of early Jewish spirituality in the centuries around the turn of the era. In this volume twelve such prayers have been collected, translated, and provided with an extensive historical and philological commentary. They have been preserved on papyrus, on stone, and as part of Christian church orders into which some of them have been incorporated in a christianized from. For that reason these prayers are of great interest to scholars of both early Judaism and ancient Christianity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van der Horst, Pieter W.

Newman, Judith. H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Table of contents;5
3;Preface;7
4;Abbreviations;13
5;I. The Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions;17
6;II. A Communal Prayer (Pap. Egerton 5);111
7;III. A Prayer for Protection against Unclean Spirits (Pap. Fouad 203);139
8;IV. A Prayer for Vengeance from Rheneia;151
9;V. The Prayer of Manasseh;161
10;VI. The Prayer of Azariah;197
11;VII. The Prayer of Jacob;231
12;VIII. Appendix: The Prayer of Joseph;263
13;Backmatter;275

Über Autor(innen)

Pieter W. van der Horst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Judith H. Newman, University of Toronto, Canada.