Early Jewish Prayers in Greek

Early Jewish Prayers in Greek
Author: Pieter W. van der Horst
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2008-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110211122

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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 twelve such 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.

Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions

Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions
Author: Stefan C. Reif
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110369087

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Given the recent interest in the emotions presupposed in early religious literature, it has been thought useful to examine in this volume how the Jews and early Christians expressed their feelings within the prayers recorded in some of their literature. Specialists in their fields from academic institutions around the world have analysed important texts relating to this overall theme and to what is revealed with regard to such diverse topics as relations with God, exegesis, education, prophecy, linguistic expression, feminism, happiness, grief, cult, suicide, non-Jews, Hellenism, Qumran and Jerusalem. The texts discussed are in Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic and are important for a scientific understanding of how Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity developed their approaches to worship, to the construction of their theology and to the feelings that lay behind their religious ideas and practices. The articles contribute significantly to an historical understanding of how Jews maintained their earlier traditions but also came to terms with the ideology of the dominant Hellenistic culture that surrounded them.

A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
Author: Gabriele Boccaccini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 0190863080

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The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

Romaniote Siddur

Romaniote Siddur
Author: Panagiotis Gkoumas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2024-07-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3759730663

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The Synagogal liturgy of the Romaniote Jews represents the oldest European Jewish prayer rite. In fact the Greek-speaking Jews descent from a Jewish group which developed their own prayers and customs within the Greek Civilisation long before the diaspora. As we can see from Old Testament translations, from the Genizah fragments and from later manuscripts the Hellenistic and Romaniote Jews started early to use their mother tongue, in this case Greek, as a liturgical language and combined their old prayers which they brought from Palestine with new customs. These circumstances partly describe the extraordinary position of the Romaniote rite within all the other rites. Some Romaniote practices seem to have been integrated into the other rites as well. Parallels in the liturgy between the Jews in the lands east of the Elbe River and the Greek-Jewish ritual, can be seen as such an influence, which is perfectly understandable as Greek-speaking Jews have been the first Jewish settlers in Eastern Europe. Other examples on how Greek-speaking and Byzantine Jews influenced the European Jewry within the Byzantine Commonwealth and the centuries before and after it could be easily added. After all these centuries the great work of the Romaniote scholars and paytanim is unquestionable. Such as Tobiah ben Eliezer from Northern Greece who wrote a commentary to the Torah and the Megillot, the Lekah Tov, and Zerahiah the Greek, the author of the famous ethical work Sefer ha-Yashar. But above all the Romaniotes recognised the writing of piyut (from Greek poietes - poet) as their genre. The present publication ''reprints'' a prayer book according to the rite of the Romaniote Jews, which is taken from a medieval manuscript, the readings of the haftarot according to the Romaniote minhag, a collection of several piyutim and selichot and several other texts which are important to the Romaniote rite. Since this book represents the first print of a Romaniote prayer book since the 17th century, it truly can be said that an easy access to this old liturgy has been created now.

Discovering the Traditions of Prose Prayers in Early Jewish Literature

Discovering the Traditions of Prose Prayers in Early Jewish Literature
Author: Michael D. Matlock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567458105

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In this volume Michael D. Matlock analyses five lengthy biblical prose prayers from the exilic and post-exilic period: Solomon's prayer (1 Kings 8.14-61), Ezra's prayer (Ezra 9.5-15), Nehemiah's prayer (Nehemiah 1.4-11), the Levites' prayer (Nehemiah 9.4-37), and the prayer of Daniel (Daniel 9:3-19). He also examines prayers from Second Temple literature including texts from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the writings of Philo and Josephus and texts from Qumran, and discusses the Septuagintal versions of the five biblical prayers and Targum Jonathan's treatment of Solomon's prayer. He offers a new English translation of each prayer, examines the prayers' rhetorical characteristics, and demonstrates how each prayer draws upon and reinterprets traditional images and materials. Matlock describes how each prayer relates to its larger narrative context and examines its functions within that context. Finally, he appraises the various similarities and differences in these prayers in terms of their different contexts in the Second Commonwealth period noting particular theologies and ideologies.

The Lord's Prayer and Other Prayer Texts from the Greco-Roman Era

The Lord's Prayer and Other Prayer Texts from the Greco-Roman Era
Author: James H. Charlesworth
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1994
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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This first publication to emerge from the Society of Biblical Literature's seminar group on prayer in the Greco-Roman period includes, in addition to the editor, contributions by Barbara E. Bowe, Barbara E. Reid, Agneta Enermalm-Ogawa, Mark Harding, Mark S. Kiley, and Steven F. Plymale. The opening chapter addresses some of Joachim Jeremias's contentions concerning Luke's shortened version of the Lord's Prayer. Linguistic and thematic affinities between the Matthean version of the Lord's Prayer and the sayings in the Sermon on the Mount are then considered, as is the Prayer of Simeon and its relation to the sanctioning power of prayer texts in Luke-Acts. After revisiting Jesus' transfiguration experience to determine what really happened, the book turns to the prayers and benedictions in Josephus's Antiquities and to the long prayer that concludes 1 Clement. An exhaustive bibliography on the Lord's Prayer and other prayer texts from the Greco-Roman period comprises the second half of the book. Beginning with a stylistic and genre analysis, the bibliography lists general studies, Hebrew Bible, Jewish texts, New Testament, early Christian texts, magical texts, Gnostic, Hermetic, Manichaean, and Madaean texts, and papyri and inscriptions.

Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Studies in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Author: Pieter W. van der Horst
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004271112

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Over the past 45 years Professor Pieter W. van der Horst contributed extensively to the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The 24 papers in this volume, written since his early retirement in 2006, cover a wide range of topics, all of them concerning the religious world of Judaism and Christianity in the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine era. They reflect his research interests in Jewish epigraphy, Jewish interpretation of the Bible, Jewish prayer culture, the diaspora in Asia Minor, exegetical problems in the writings of Philo and Josephus, Samaritan history, texts from ancient Christianity which have received little attention (the poems of Cyrus of Panopolis, the Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati, the Letter of Mara bar Sarapion), and miscellanea such as the pagan myth of Jewish cannibalism, the meaning of the Greek expression ‘without God,’ the religious significance of sneezing in pagan antiquity, and the variety of stories about pious long-sleepers in the ancient world (pagan, Jewish, Christian).

Teaching Through Song in Antiquity

Teaching Through Song in Antiquity
Author: Matthew E. Gordley
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2011
Genre: Hymns in the Bible
ISBN: 9783161507229

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While scholars of antiquity have long spoken of didactic hymns, no single volume has defined or explored this phenomenon across cultural boundaries in antiquity. In this monograph Matthew E. Gordley provides a broad definition of didactic hymnody and examines how didactic hymns functioned at the intersection of historical circumstances and the needs of a given community to perceive itself and its place in the cosmos and to respond accordingly. Comparing the use of didactic hymnody in a variety of traditions, this study illuminates the multifaceted ways that ancient hymns and psalms contributed to processes of communal formation among the human audiences that participated in the praise either as hearers or active participants. The author finds that in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, many hymns and prayers served a didactic role fostering the ongoing development of a sense of identity within particular communities.

Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History?

Was 70 CE a Watershed in Jewish History?
Author: Daniel R. Schwartz
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2011-12-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004217444

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The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem in 70 CE, which put an end to sacrificial worship in Israel, is usually assumed to constitute a major caesura in Jewish history. But how important was it? What really changed due to 70? What, in contrast, was already changing before 70 or remained basically – or “virtually” -- unchanged despite it? How do the Diaspora, which was long used to Temple-less Judaism, and early Christianity, which was born around the same time, fit in? This Scholion Library volume presents twenty papers given at an international conference in Jerusalem in which scholars assessed the significance of 70 for their respective fields of specialization, including Jewish liturgy, law, literature, magic, art, institutional history, and early Christianity.