Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
Language: English
Published by Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co KG, DE, 2019
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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 identified as an element of the fundamental transformation of Jewish theology and practice from worship founded on sacrificial rituals performed by priests at the Jerusalem Temple to abstract, unmediated, direct approaches to God by every Jew in any location. The book also examines Samaritan prayer and detects a variety of attitudes, rules, and customs similar to those found at Qumran that are incompatible with their rabbinic counterparts. This opens the door for investigating religious belief and practice at a crucial period in the history of Western civilization, namely, before the vast rabbinic reform of Judaism after 70 CE.…
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- Title
- Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?
- Author
- Paul Heger
- Publisher
- Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht GmbH and Co KG, DE
- Publication year
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3525571313
- ISBN 13
- 9783525571316
- Item weight
- 584 grams
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Dr. theol. Armin Lange is Professor of Judaism of the Second Temple and Director of the Institute for Jewish Studies of the University of Vienna. His teachings cover the period from the beginnings of Israel and Judah to the Second Jewish War, where he specializes in the wisdom and prophetic literature of Israel, the Dead Sea textual finds, and the Hebrew text and canon history. He is a member of the international editorial team of the Dead Sea.
Vered Noam, Ph.D., is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud and Chair of Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies and Archaeology at the University of Tel-Aviv.
Bernard M. Levinson is Professor of Classics and Law at the University of Minnesota and holds the Berman Family Chair of Judaism and Hebrew.
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