Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry, Volume 12BRILL, 1993 M12 31 - 415 pages "Qumran Prayer and Religious Poetry" represents the first attempt to undertake a systematic, comprehensive study of the liturgical and poetic texts which were discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran. The collections of prayers, blessings and hymns indicate that fixed prayers were already customary within Judaism during the period of the Second Temple within sectarian circles. In the light of the prayer texts from Qumran the author conducts a systematic study of Jewish prayer beginning with its biblical traditions, through its development during the Second Temple period, and down to rabbinic prayer. By means of comparative literary analysis, the author is able to elucidate the relationship of the Qumran texts to forms and motifs found in parallel text types from various periods and circles within Judaism. This volume provides the reader with tools for a renewed study of the history of prayer in Judaism in the light of new textual evidence from the Second Temple period. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Continuity of the Biblical Tradition during the Second Temple Period | 5 |
Findings of Prayer and Poetry from Qumran and their Study | 8 |
Study of the Literary Processes | 24 |
The Structure of the Study | 30 |
The Editing of the Texts in the Study | 31 |
FIXED PRAYER IN QUMRAN AND IN MAINSTREAM JUDAISM | 33 |
From Occasional Prayer to Fixed Prayer | 35 |
The Priestly Blessing as an Introduction to Solemn Blessing of the Community 11QBer 12 4Q285 1 | 167 |
Summary | 170 |
Songs of Praise | 173 |
Songs of Praise in the Bible | 175 |
The Structural Routine of the Songs of Praise | 176 |
Additional Methods in the Structure of Praise | 181 |
Structures of Invitation | 183 |
Summary | 189 |
The Status of Prayer in the Bible | 37 |
The Variety of Forms of Prayer in the Bible | 39 |
Prayer During the Second Temple Period According to the Bible and the Apocrypha | 40 |
in Rabbinic Sources | 41 |
Stages in the Crystallization of Fixed Prayer in Judaism | 44 |
Fixed Prayer in Qumran | 47 |
Fixed Times for Prayer | 49 |
Regular Praises at Their Fixed Times | 52 |
The Religious Values of the Idea of Prayer at Fixed Times | 59 |
Prayer at Fixed TimesPublic Prayer | 61 |
The Liturgy | 63 |
Orders of Public Worship | 64 |
The Text of the Prayers | 66 |
Fixed Patterns | 69 |
The Recitation of Blessing to God within Prayers | 72 |
Subjects of Prayer | 80 |
The Fixed Supplications Teḥinnot from Qumran | 89 |
Supplications Through Remembrances | 90 |
Remembrances in the Tehinnot from QumranTheir Contents Approach and Rationale | 92 |
The Petitions in the Fixed Supplicatory Prayers | 104 |
The Practice of Remembrance in Tannaitic and Amoraitic Halakhah | 111 |
Methods of Remembrance of the Sages and of Qumran | 114 |
Summary | 115 |
PRAYER OF THE CONGREGATION | 117 |
Blessings and Curses | 119 |
Blessings and Curses in QumranGeneral Introduction | 122 |
Blessing Counterposed to Curse in the CovenantA Ceremonial Symbol for Dualistic Distinction | 124 |
Blessing and Curse of the New Covenant in an Ancient Ceremonial Formula | 129 |
Blessing as Against Curse on Occasions of Dualistic Conflict | 135 |
Conclusions | 139 |
The Priestly Blessing as Textual Form in the Bible and in Qumran | 145 |
Literary Use of the Priestly Blessing in the Bible | 146 |
Homiletical Use of the Priestly Blessing in QumranIntroduction | 148 |
Curse in the Pattern of the Sectarian Priestly Blessing | 151 |
Curse With an Indirect Associative Connection to the Priestly Blessing | 153 |
Free Use of the Expanded Pattern in the Blessings 1QSbIntroduction | 155 |
Free Use of the Expanded Pattern of Priestly Blessing in the Blessing to Those who Fear God | 156 |
Use of One of the Verbs of Blessing and of the Homiletic Form | 158 |
The Priestly Blessing as the Opening of Works Based upon Other Textual Forms | 164 |
Songs of Praise in Qumran | 190 |
Routine Models | 191 |
The Structure of the Exaltation | 193 |
Structures of Invitation | 195 |
Eschatological Poetry | 201 |
The Ceremonial Occasions | 202 |
Eschatological Songs in the Bible and in the War Scroll | 205 |
The Literary TraditionStructure | 208 |
Contents Combination of Traditional Thanksgiving and the Apocalyptic Idea | 213 |
The Incorporation of Apocalyptic Elements within the Traditional Model of the Introductions | 215 |
The Body of the SongsCombination of Biblical and Apocalyptic Elements | 218 |
The Giving of an Apocalyptic Character to Contents of Biblical Nature | 219 |
The Biblical Model of Apocalyptic Myth in the Song to be Sung on the Day of Victory 1QM xiii | 224 |
Summary | 225 |
Magical Poetry | 227 |
The Scrolls of Magic Songs from Qumran and Their Purpose | 232 |
The Literary Structure of the Songs of the Maskil | 238 |
The Incantations | 244 |
Praises | 252 |
The Power of Eschatological Praise | 253 |
The Power of the Song of Praise for Those Who Recite It | 260 |
The Conventional Phenomenon | 263 |
Thanksgiving of the Maskil | 265 |
The Formal Structure of the Thanksgivings of the Maskil | 267 |
Contents of the Thanksgiving of the Maskil | 268 |
Summary | 271 |
Mystical Poetry | 273 |
The Literary Image of the Angelic Song | 276 |
The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and their Purpose | 282 |
The Image of the Supernal Song from Qumran | 296 |
The Praises of the Chief Angelic Princes and their Blessings | 297 |
Praises Recited by the Multitude | 307 |
The Songs of the Secondary Princes of the Priest | 310 |
Praises of the Sanctuary and the Chariot | 311 |
The Thanksgiving Scroll 1QH and Prayer Compositions | 321 |
The Priestly Blessing in | 357 |
The Qeduša Trishagion | 367 |
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