Early Jewish Prayers in Greek
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2008
De Gruyter
9783111739281 (ISBN)
De Gruyter
9783111739281 (ISBN)
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The series Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (CEJL) is devoted to the study of Jewish documents and traditions that can be dated or traced back to the Hellenistic and Roman periods (ca. 300 BCE–150 CE). The literature covered by the series represents a rich diversity of literary forms and religious perspectives. Formally, these writings include testaments, apocalypses, legends, expansions and interpretations of biblical writings, psalms and prayers, poetry, historiography, and wisdom literature. They witness to an immensely creative period during which many Jews were struggling to preserve a living faith in the wake of social, political, and religious upheavals in the Mediterranean world and the Near East. Die auf ca. 58 Bände angelegte Reihe Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature behandelt die frühe jüdische Literatur zwischen dem 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. und der Mitte des 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. Die Schriften sollen jeweils als textliche Einheit vor dem Hintergrund ihres jeweiligen jüdischen und historisch-politischen Kontextes ausgelegt werden. Dabei werden textbezogene, historische, literarische und theologische Analysen erstellt.
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 twelvesuch 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.
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 twelvesuch 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.
Pieter W. van der Horst, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Judith H. Newman, University of Toronto, Canada.
| Zusatzinfo | Includes a print version and an ebook |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Berlin/Boston |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum |
| Schlagworte | Gebet • Jewish Prayers • Jewish Prayers; Jewish Spirituality; Prayer • Jewish Spirituality • Jüdisches Gebet • Jüdische Spiritualität • Prayer |
| ISBN-13 | 9783111739281 / 9783111739281 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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