Description:
Hardback. New. This book challenges scholars' assumption, without any explicit evidence, of institutionalized public prayer with fixed contents and times in the Qumran community. As the book observes, this assumption rests in part on a failure to distinguish between voluntary supplication prayers and biblically mandated blessings and thanks. The book closely examines the three Qumran writings assumed to typify prayer and critiques scholars' attempts to deduce the existence of public prayer from these and other sources, which are most likely pious expressions of individual authors. The lack of indispensable instructions for institutionalized prayer offers circumstantial evidence that such prayer was not practiced at Qumran. This study also explores the assumption that Qumran prayer was intended as a substitute for sacrifices after the group's separation from the temple cult and discusses relevant rabbinic statements. The innovative character of rabbinic fixed prayer is discussed and…
Read More Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption? Hardcover -
by Paul Heger
Details
- Title Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
- Author Paul Heger
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 313
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
- ISBN 9783525571316 / 3525571313
- Weight 5.05 lbs (2.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
-
Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
More Copies for Sale
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
by Paul Heger
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9783525571316 / 3525571313
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Seller
-
Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$128.06$12.80 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
$128.06
$12.80
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran
by Heger, Paul
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9783525571316 / 3525571313
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Bristol, Connecticut, United States
- Item Price
-
$127.00$3.99 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019. hardcover. New. 96x14x145.
Item Price
$127.00
$3.99
shipping to USA