Biblical Prose Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biblical Prose Prayer write by Moshe Greenberg. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Biblical Prose Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Some degree of spiritual enlightenment must be supposed to account for the overall tolerance, even receptivity, of the people; though they refused to comply with the prophets' uncompromising demands, and occasionally persecuted one or another of them, as a rule they allowed them to preach, and even spawned devotees who reverently preserved their speeches until canonization. Unsupported by power and wealth, the classical prophets can have persisted for centuries only because they were rooted in loamy spiritual soil. The populace constituting that soil deserves to be appreciated no less than the exotic flowers that towered above it. What was the spiritual loam that prepared Israel's soil so that prophecy could thrive in it? Any answer to this question must give due consideration to the popular life of prayer. For it was in extemporized praying that the Israelites experienced a nonmagical approach to God in which form was subordinate to content; here, in immediate contact with a God who searched the conscience and the heart, they were sensitized to sincerity in self-disclosure to God; and, finally, it was in prayer that they had constantly to face the issue of adjusting their ways to God's in order to obtain his favor. Greenberg finds in this rich life of private prayer a setting for the high religious ideas--and the scathing critique of worship--which characterized the genius of the prophets of the eighth and ninth centuries BC. This masterful evaluation of biblical prose prayer, a tradition independent of experts and special places, suggests an explanation for the unprecedented democratization of worship in postbiblical Judaism.
Prayer in the Hebrew Bible
Prayer in the Hebrew Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prayer in the Hebrew Bible write by Samuel E. Balentine. This book was released on 1993-05-01. Prayer in the Hebrew Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Balentine invites the reader to consider several aspects of prayer in the Hebrew Bible: prayer and the depiction of character, prayer and the characterization of God, prayers for divine justice, the lament tradition, sensible praise, prayer in Old Testament theology, and the motif of the church as "a house of prayer".
Seeking the Favor of God: The development of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism
Seeking the Favor of God: The development of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seeking the Favor of God: The development of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism write by Mark J. Boda. This book was released on 2006. Seeking the Favor of God: The development of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paperback edition available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Prayer in the Bible
Prayer in the Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prayer in the Bible write by Carlo Perez. This book was released on 2009. Prayer in the Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Moses, God, and the Dynamics of Intercessory Prayer
Moses, God, and the Dynamics of Intercessory Prayer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moses, God, and the Dynamics of Intercessory Prayer write by Michael Widmer. This book was released on 2004. Moses, God, and the Dynamics of Intercessory Prayer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revised thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Durham, 2003.
