The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism: Liturgy, Ritual and Community

Author:   Claudia Bergmann ,  Tessa Rajak ,  Benedikt Kranemann ,  Rebecca Ullrich
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   118
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9789004678279


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
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Author:   Claudia Bergmann ,  Tessa Rajak ,  Benedikt Kranemann ,  Rebecca Ullrich
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   118
Weight:   0.623kg
ISBN:  

9789004678279


ISBN 10:   9004678271
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   25 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Editors and Contributors Part 1: Introduction Introduction: New Approaches  Tessa Rajak Prologue: Looking Back at Patients’ Prayers in Babylonian Incantations and Hebrew Individual Complaint  Erhard S. Gerstenberger† Part 2: The Psalms in the Second Temple Period Building a Community of the Elect through Psalms and Prayers Liturgy, Education, and Prophetic Interpretation  Mika S. Pajunen The Motif of the Heavenly Cult in the Psalms and at Qumran  Beate Ego Retelling Foundational Events in Psalm 106: Experiencing and Remembering the Past  Angela Kim Harkins The Septuagint Psalms and Their Setting  James K. Aitken† Part 3: The Psalms in Late Antique Religious Poetry The Psalms Are Not Enough The Revolution of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry (Piyyut) in Late Antiquity  Ophir Münz-Manor The Prayers of Moses: Psalm 90 and Moses’s Refusal to Die  Laura S. Lieber Part 4: The Psalms in Rabbinic and Medieval Judaism and Beyond The Centrality of Psalms in Judaism and Their Major Interpretations prior to and during the Middle Ages Approaches, Authorship, Genre, and Polemics  Isaac Kalimi Psalm 8 as a Case Study in “Embedded” Jewish Commentary  Alan Cooper The Early Medieval Emergence of Jewish Daily Morning Psalms Recitation, Pesuqe de-Zimra  Ruth Langer Psalms in Kabbalistic Texts and Ritual  Susanne Talabardon Index of Sources Index of Names, Places and Subjects

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Claudia D. Bergmann, Ph.D. (2006), University of Chicago, is Professurvertreterin at the University of Paderborn. Her last monograph is Festmahl ohne Ende. Apokalyptische Vorstellungen vom Speisen in der Kommenden Welt im antiken Judentum und ihre biblischen Wurzeln (Kohlhammer, 2019). Tessa Rajak, D.Phil. (1974), University of Oxford, is Professor Emeritus, University of Reading and Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Her books include Josephus; The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome; and Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible in the Graeco-Roman World. Benedikt Kranemann, Ph.D (1989), Universität Münster, is Professor of Liturgical Studies at Universität Erfurt. He has published monographs, collections and articles about history, theology and today´s practice of Christian worship. Rebecca Ullrich, M.A., Freie Universität Berlin, holds a Postdoc in Jewish Studies. She wrote her dissertation (to be published in 2023) on the Genizah fragments of the Sheiltot of Rav Ahai Gaon and has published several articles on Genizot. Her latest publication appeared in the co-edited volume “Genisa-Blätter IV” (2023).

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