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Prayers and the construction of Israelite identity /
This collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores how the elaboration of biblical prayers of the Persian and early Hellenistic periods shaped identity, evoked a sense of belonging to specific groups, and added emotional significance to this affiliation. Contributors draw exa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Atlanta :
SBL Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Ancient Israel and its literature ;
no. 35. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher, Maria Häusl
- Shaping biblical books through prayer.
- Rhetorically and ideologically shaping the narrative through direct and indirect prayer speech in Chronicles / Michael D. Matlock
- Prayers in the book of Jonah : reflections on different "Israelite" identities? / Dirk J. Human
- So I prayed to the God of heaven (Neh 2:4) : praying and prayers in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah / Maria Häusl
- Identity and social justice in postexilic Yehud : reading Nehemiah 9 in an African liberationist perspective / Ndikho Mtshiselwa
- (Re)modeling biblical figures through prayers.
- Testing tales : Genesis 22 and Daniel 3 and 6 / Christo Lombaard
- Glory and remorse : transitions in Solomon's prayer (1 Kgs 8) / Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher
- Hannah's prayer(s) in 1 Samuel 1-2 and in Pseudo-Philo's Liber antiquitatum biblicarum / Hannes Bezzel
- (Re-)constructing identity in the prayers of the Psalter.
- Psalm 37 and the devotionalization of instruction in the postexilic period / Scott C. Jones
- To sanction and to subvert : the reuses of Psalm 132 in the Hebrew Bible / Melody D. Knowles
- Aspects of dynamic remembering and constructing in Psalm 145 : a contribution to the study of prayer in Persian and Hellenistic times / Nancy Rahn.