Liturgical perspectives: prayer and poetry in light of the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23 January, 2000, [Jerusalem]

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The papers published in this volume were presented at the Fifth Orion International Symposium (Jerusalem, 2000), which focused on prayer and poetry in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The volume examines the recently published poetical and liturgical texts from Qumran against the background of Second Temple Judaism, its biblical antecedents, and later rabbinic developments. The essays treat a variety of prayers and religious practices, as well as major issues in the history of Jewish liturgy. Topics range from magic, mysticism and thanksgiving to lamentation, fast day rituals, communal worship, and the relationship between the prayers from Qumran and the traditional Jewish prayers. The application of new Scrolls material to this breadth of topics constitutes an important contribution to the study of religious poetry, religious practice, and liturgy.
 

Contents

Poetry and Prose in 4Q371373 Narrative and Poetic
19
Human and Angelic Prayer in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
35
Qumran and the Roots of the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy
49
Apotropaic Prayers in the Second Temple Period
69
Another Fragment 3a of 4QShirot Olat HaShabbat 4Q401
89
Prayers for Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and
113
The Second Temple Period Qumran Research
133
Some Reflections on the Function and Use of Poetical
173
The Number of Psalms in 1QHodayota and Some of Their
191
A Second Temple NonTemple Liturgy
235
The Litany Our God in Heaven and Its Precedents in
263
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