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Functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period / edited By Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner.

Other author/creatorPajunen, Mika S.
Other author/creatorPenner, Jeremy.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerlin : De Gruyter, [2017]
Descriptionix, 506 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 0934-2575 ; volume 486
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 486. ^A489600
Contents Psalms, hymns, and prayers in late Second Temple Judaism / Eileen Schuller -- Part 1. Psalms, Prayers, and Embodied Religion -- Towards a cognitive theory of blessing : The Dead Sea Scrolls as a test case / Jutta Jokiranta -- The imprecatory features of Psalms of Solomon 4 and 12 / Rodney A. Werline -- Toward a genealogy of the introspective self in Second Temple Judaism / Carol Newsom -- The function of prayers of ritual mourning in the Second Temple Period / Angela Kim Harkins --
Contents 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 -- Prayer and remembrance in 4QSapiential work (4Q185) / Ingunn Aadland -- Lamentations : time and setting / Corinna Körting --
Contents 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 -- Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence : preliminary observations and questions / Joseph Angel -- 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 --
Contents 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 -- Exodus and exile as prototypes of justice : prophecies in the Psalms of Solomon and Barkhi Nafshi hymns / Mike S. Pajunen --
Contents Part 5. Psalms, prayers, history and identity -- Those who pray together stay together : the role of late psalms in creating identity / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Praying history in the Dead Sea Scrolls : memory, identity, fulfilment / George J. Brooke -- Fathers and sons : family ties in the historical psalms / Anja Klein --
Contents 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 -- Ben Sira's use of various psalm genres / Marko Marttila -- "There is no one righteous" : Paul's use of Psalms in Romans 3 / Marika Pulkkinen -- Philippians 2:6-11 as a christological psalm from the 20th Century / Årstein Justness.
Abstract "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 "-- Publisher's website.
General note"The articles collected in this volume are the product of a two-part conference. The first was in Copenhagen in May 2015, the second in Helsinki in September of the same year."--Introduction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 425-466) and indexes.
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