The Disciples' Prayer : The Prayer Jesus Taught in Its Historical Setting /

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Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but what exactly are they praying for--and what relationship does it have with Jesus' own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship that derives the so-called Lord's Prayer from Jewish synagogal prayers and r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gibson, Jeffrey B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis [Minnesota] : Fortress Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Historicity.
Lord's prayer > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Prayer > Christianity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • What prayer are we praying when we pray the "Lord's Prayer"?
  • What are we praying for when we pray the Disciples' Prayer?
  • What kind of prayer are we praying when we pray the Disciples' Prayer?
  • The prayer's author and his disciples
  • Is the disciples' prayer an eschatological prayer?
  • The "temptation" petition
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Was John the Baptist the author of the Disciples' Prayer?

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