Prayers and the construction of Israelite identity / edited by Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher and Maria Häusl.
Contributor(s): Gillmayr-Bucher, Susanne [editor.]
| Häusl, Maria [editor.]
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TextSeries: Ancient Israel and its literature: no. 35.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xi, 245 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781628372434; 1628372435; 9780884143666; 088414366XSubject(s): Bible -- Prayers -- History and criticism | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Jews -- Identity | Identification (Religion)DDC classification: 221.6 LOC classification: BS1199.P68 | P73 2019Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.