Prayers of Jewish Women
Studies of Patterns of Prayer in the Second Temple Period
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Vol. !!, No. 211

By Markus McDowell
September 2006
Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161488504
277 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/4"
$107.50 Paper Original

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The author examines the character, content and form of the prayers of Jewish women in the literature of the Second Temple Period, from about the second century BCE to the second century CE. The prayers are also compared with men's prayers in the same literature.

Partial Contents:
Prayers in the Literature of Second Temple Judaism.
Prayers of Jewish Women in Documents from the Second to First Century BCE:
Palestinian Origin--additions to Esther.
Judith.
Jubilees.
Second Maccabees.
Susanna.
Diaspora Origin--Tobit.
Deborah's Hymn.
Hannah's Prayer for a Child.
Judah.
Rachel.
Aseneth's Prayers.
Philo of Alexandria.
Sarah.
Rebekah.
Prayers in 4 Ezra.
Jewish Antiquities.
Summaries. Conclusions.
Appendix--Prayer in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Bibliography.
Index of Ancient Sources.

Theology


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