Format:
1 Online-Ressource (400 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110369090
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9783110386080
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9783110369083
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9783110374292
Series Statement:
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies Volume 26
Content:
This collection of essaysoffers ananalysis of central texts in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic relating to emotions within literary prayers. Their discussions touch upon such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The articles contribute to a scientific understanding of early Rabbinic and Christian ideas. Stefan C. Reif, St John's College, University of Cambridge, England;Renate Egger-Wenzel, University of Salzburg, Austria.
Content:
This collection of essays offers an analysis of central texts in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic relating to emotions within literary prayers. Their discussions touch upon such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The articles contribute to a scientific understanding of early Rabbinic and Christian ideas
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Place of Prayer in Early Judaism -- Moments of Joy and Lasting Happiness -- “Sounding Trumpets with Loud Shouts” Emotional Responses to Temple Building: Ezra and Esdras -- Adjusting the Narrative Emotions and the Prayer of Moses (Jub 1:19–21) -- Emotions in Jerusalem’s Prayer: Baruch and Lamentations -- Prayer and Emotion in the Septuagint of Esther -- 1 Maccabees: Emotions of Life and Death in Narrative and Lament -- Praying to God Passionately: Notes on the Emotions in 2 Maccabees -- Emotions in the Prayer of Sir 22:27–23:6 -- Emotions in the Prayers of the Wisdom of Solomon -- Judith and Holofernes: An Analysis of the Emotions in the Killing Scene (Jdt 12:10–13:9) -- Sarah’s Grief to Death (Tob 3:7–17) -- The Prayer of Susanna (Daniel 13) -- Language, Prayer and Prophecy: 1 Enoch, the Dead Sea Scrolls and 1 Corinthians -- From Emotions to Legislation: Asenath’s Prayer and Rabbinic Literature -- Emotions and Expressions of Emotion as a Didactic Guide as to How to Pray: Berakhot in the Aramaic Prayers of Qumran -- A Phenomenological Study of Penitential Elements and Their Strategic Arousal of Emotion in the Qumran Hodayot (1QHa cols. 1[?]–8) -- The Centrality of Prayer and Stability of Trust. An Analysis of the Hymn of the Maskil in 1QS IX, 25b–XI, 15a -- Prayer and Emotion in Mark 14:32–42 and Related Texts -- Κράζειν and the Concept of “Emotional Prayer” in Earliest Christianity: Rom 8:15 and Acts 7:60 in Their Context(s) -- Index of subjects -- Index of references -- Index of persons
Additional Edition:
Print version Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions : Emotions associated with Jewish prayer in and around the Second Temple period
Language:
English
Keywords:
Frühjudentum
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Literatur
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Gebet
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Gefühl
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9783110369083
Author information:
Egger-Wenzel, Renate 1961-
Author information:
Reif, Stefan C. 1944-
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