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Author Kiley, Mark

Title Prayer From Alexander To Constantine : a Critical Anthology
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (645 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General Introduction; Shared Characteristics; Relation to Hellenistic Culture; Avenues to the Present; Notes; Part I: Judaica; 1. An introduction to prayer at Qumran; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 2. A thanksgiving for God's help (4Q434 ii-iii); Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 3. Apostrophe to Zion (11Q Psalms Scroll 22:1-15); Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography
4. Dibre Hamme'orot: Prayer for the Sixth Day (4Q504 1-2 v-vi)Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 5. Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 6. Hymn on Occasions for Prayer (1QS 10:8b-17); Introduction; Translation; Notes; 7. Prayers in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; Prayer Practice and Ritual; The Scripturalization of Prayer; Notes; 8. In misery, Tobit prays for death (3:1-6); Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 9. God condemns the arrogance of power: the prayer in 3 Maccabees 6:2-15; Introduction
TranslationNotes; Selected Bibliography; 10. Prayer of Noah: Jubilees 10:3-6; Introduction; Translation of Jubilees 10:3-6; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 11. Judith prays for help (Judith 9:1-14); Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 12. Prayer of a convert to Judaism (Joseph and Aseneth 12-13); Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 13. The Song of Hannah in Pseudo-Philo's Biblical Antiquities; Introduction; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 14. 2 Baruch 54:1-22; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 15. Josephus and Philo; Josephus
Selected BibliographyPhilo; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 16. The prayer of Moses in Josephus, Antiquities 2:335-7; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 17. Philo of Alexandria: two prayers; Introduction; Translation; Introduction; Translation; Notes; 18. The Shema and the Amidah: rabbinic prayer; The Shema; The Amidah; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Part II: Greeks and Romans; 19. Prayer in Greco-Roman religions; Form and Content of Prayer; Behaviours and Attitudes Associated with Prayer; The Place of Prayer; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 20. Cato the Elder; Introduction
TranslationsNotes; Selected Bibliography; 21. Cleanthes -- Hymn to Zeus; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 22. Catullus 34: a prayer to Diana by C. Valerius Catullus; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 23. The oath of Aeneas: Vergil, Aeneid 12.176-94; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 24. A prayer of Scipio Africanus: Livy 29.27.2-4; Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography; 25. The Isis hymn of Diodorus of Sicily (1.27.3); Introduction; Translation; Notes; Selected Bibliography
Summary Prayer From Alexander To Constantine presents a diverse selection of prayer chosen by over 40 different historians, all specialists in their respective areas of Graeco-Roman literature. This collaboration gives the book a range and depth that no individual author could hope to rival. Each selection includes an introductory essay, followed by a new English translation of the prayer, accompanied by critical notes and biography. In this way the reader is able to gain an insight into the variety of subjects and styles involved in people's communications with their gods in antiquity.<BR
Notes 26. Written in stone: a prayer to Augustus
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Subject Latin literature.
Latin literature
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317798927
1317798929