Daily, Sabbath, and Festival Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Daily, Sabbath, and Festival Prayers in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Daniel K. Falk

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9004350284

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All the evidence for daily, sabbath, and festival prayers in the Qumran scrolls is analysed in detail, document by document. On the basis of formal features and social-liturgical setting, these prayers are compared with each other to uncover divergent prayer traditions. Comparative material beyond the scrolls is used to reassess their place in the development of Jewish prayer. Evidence for prayers of different origin found at Qumran is important for reconsidering the nature of the scrolls, the community(s) which used them, and the history of Jewish liturgy. For several texts significant new reconstructions are offered.

Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Esther G. Chazon

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-12-24

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 9004350462

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The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fifth Orion International Symposium (Jerusalem, 2000), which focused on prayer and poetry in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume examines the recently published poetical and liturgical texts from Qumran against the background of Second Temple Judaism, its biblical antecedents, and later rabbinic developments. The essays treat a variety of prayers and religious practices, as well as major issues in the history of Jewish liturgy. Topics range from magic, mysticism and thanksgiving to lamentation, fast day rituals, communal worship, and the relationship between the prayers from Qumran and the traditional Jewish prayers. The application of new Scrolls material to this breadth of topics constitutes an important contribution to the study of religious poetry, religious practice, and liturgy.

Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
Prayer and Poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature

Author: Jeremy Penner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-10-28

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 9004215018

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The last major volume of articles devoted to the topic of prayer and poetry in the Dead Sea Scrolls comprised a collection of articles presented at a conference in the year 2000 (Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls). This collection reflects the state of research in the field broadly and on specific prayers and poetic texts found among the Dead Sea Scrolls; it also offers new insights into topics on which Eileen Schuller has written extensively.

Problems with Prayers
Problems with Prayers

Author: Stefan C. Reif

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-03-12

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 3110895382

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Much of the primary research summarized here relates to Cambridge Genizah manuscripts, a thousand-year-old source that testifies to liturgical (as well, of course, as non-liturgical) developments that greatly predate other source material. When the research is concerned with pre-Genizah history, the Genizah evidence is also relevant since the historian of religious ideas must ultimately decide how to date, characterize, and conceptualize its contents and how to explain where they vary significantly from what became, or is regarded (rightly or wrongly) as having become, the standard rabbinic liturgy sanctioned by the Iraqi Jewish authorities from the ninth to the eleventh century.

A History of Prayer
A History of Prayer

Author: Roy Hammerling

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-11-30

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9047424530

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“Prayer is real religion,” said Auguste Sabatier. If so, the academic study of prayer allows scholars to examine the very heart of religious practices, beliefs, and convictions. Since prayers exist in a wide variety of content, contexts, forms, and practices, a comprehensive approach to the study of prayer is required. Therefore, this volume includes scholars from a wide range of disciplines, in order to discover the breadth of “real religion” from the first to the fifteenth centuries. This volume especially focuses upon the history of Christianity and monasticism, where prayer was the school of hope, faith, and critical thought, awakening the faithful to every aspect of religious and daily life. Contributors are L. Edward Phillips, Karlfried Froehlich, Michael Joseph Brown, David W. Fagerberg, Columba Stewart, Benedicta Ward, Susan Boynton, Corey Barnes, Johannes Heil, Rik Van Nieuwenhove, Roger S. Wieck, Paul W. Robinson and Roy Hammerling.

Scriptures and Sectarianism
Scriptures and Sectarianism

Author: Collins

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0802873146

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Essays representing ten years of John J. Collins's expert reflection on Scripture and the Qumran community are here collected in a volume that is sure to be of interest to students and scholars of Early Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Collins opens with the introductory chapter "What Have We Learned from the Dead Sea Scrolls?" before offering essays on the authority and interpretation of Scripture, historiography and the emergence of the Qumran sect, and specific aspects of the sectarian worldview: covenant and dualism, the angelic world, the afterlife, prayer and ritual, and wisdom. A concluding epilogue considers the account of the Suffering Servant and illustrates the relevance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for early Christianity.

The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Genesis Creation Account in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Author: Jeremy D. Lyon

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-04-24

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1532607768

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The Dead Sea Scrolls continue to shed ancient light on both the text and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible during the Second Temple period. Among the scrolls are several copies of Genesis dating from the first century BC to the mid-first century AD that contain portions of text from the creation account. These fragmentary copies have provided an unprecedented glimpse into the condition of the text in antiquity and have also provided a unique window into certain scribal practices in the copying of the text. In addition, several texts from Qumran contain the most ancient surviving interpretations of the Genesis creation account, dating from the mid-second century BC to the first century AD. A literary analysis of these texts reveals how ancient Jews interpreted and employed the creation account. These diverse texts address issues such as the creation of various entities (the universe, angels, Eden, humanity), Adam’s dominion and knowledge in Eden, God’s election of Israel on the first Sabbath, the prohibition in the garden and Adam’s rebellion, and the Garden of Eden as an archetype of the sanctuary.

Sanctification
Sanctification

Author: David Birnbaum

Publisher: New Paradigm Matrix

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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Benjamin Blech is a tenth-generation rabbi. He has been a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University since 1966, and was the Rabbi of Young Israel of Oceanside for 37 years. Rabbi Blech received a B.A. from Yeshiva University, an M.A. in psychology from Columbia University, and rabbinic ordination from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. He is the author of 15 highly acclaimed books, the last one of which – The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican – has now been translated into sixteen languages.

Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception
Zodiac Calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Reception

Author: Helen R. Jacobus

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-10-30

Total Pages: 555

ISBN-13: 9004284060

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The ancient mathematical basis of the Aramaic calendars in the Dead Sea Scrolls is analysed in this investigation. Helen R. Jacobus re-examines an Aramaic zodiac calendar with a thunder divination text (4Q318) and the calendar from the Aramaic Astronomical Book (4Q208 - 4Q209), all from Qumran. Jacobus demonstrates that 4Q318 is an ancestor of the Jewish calendar today and that it helps us to understand 4Q208 - 4Q209. She argues that these calendars were taught in antiquity as angelic knowledge described in 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. The study also encompasses Babylonian, Hellenistic, Byzantine astronomy and astrology, and classical and Jewish writings. Finally, a medieval Hebrew zodiac calendar related to 4Q318 with an astrological text is published here for the first time.