Frontmatter; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; I. The Hellenistic Synagogal Prayers in the Apostolic Constitutions; II. A Communal Prayer (Pap. Egerton 5); III. A Prayer for Protection against Unclean Spirits (Pap. Fouad 203); IV. A Prayer for Vengeance from Rheneia; V. The Prayer of Manasseh; VI. The Prayer of Azariah; VII. The Prayer of Jacob; VIII. Appendix: The Prayer of Joseph; Backmatter
Summary
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