Greenberg:biblican Prose (cloth) (Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Greenberg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520050118 ISBN 13: 9780520050112

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

The Psalms are the best known and most widely used prayer texts of the Bible. But the prayers of the Israelite took another form: the prose prayers that we find embedded in biblical narrative. Prose prayer was spoken by persons of all ranks. Male and female, Israelite and foreigner, all enjoyed equal access to God. The pervasiveness and spontaneity of this prayer, independent as it was of the structure and taboos of formal worship, turned it into a criterion for sincerity both in relations with God and in those among human beings.Greenberg finds in this rich life of private prayer a setting for the high religious ideas--and the scathing critique of worship--that characterized the "genius" of the prophets of the eighth and ninth centuries B.C. His compact and masterful study, originally the 1981-1982 Taubman Lectures at Berkeley, suggests an explanation for the unprecedented democratization of worship in post-biblical Judaism.

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About the Author

Moshe Greenberg, Ph.D., was Professor of Biblical Studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In a long and illustrious career, he has written numerous works, including "The Religion of Israel," "Understanding Exodus," and "Introduction to Hebrew," He also edited the "Encyclopaedia Judaica" and served as a translator of the Jewish Bible, "Tanakh,"

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520050118
• ISBN 13: 9780520050112
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 78