Seeking the Favor of God, Vol. 1
The essays collected in this volume investigate the development of prayers of penitence within Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The book provides a critical overview of the present state of research on these prayers, and leading experts in the field use a variety of methodologies to investigate afresh various texts from the Hebrew Bible, apocryphal (deuterocanonical) and pseudepigraphical works, and the Qumran corpus in order to provide new insights into this prayer...
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The essays collected in this volume investigate the development of prayers of penitence within Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The book provides a critical overview of the present state of research on these prayers, and leading experts in the field use a variety of methodologies to investigate afresh various texts from the Hebrew Bible, apocryphal (deuterocanonical) and pseudepigraphical works, and the Qumran corpus in order to provide new insights into this prayer tradition. Contributors include Russell C. D. Arnold, Esther G. Chazon, Daniel K. Falk, LeAnn Snow Flesher, Michael H. Floyd, Judith H. Newman, Bilhah Nitzan, Eileen Schuller, Pieter M. Venter, and Rodney A. Werline.Seeking the Favor of God includes three volumes covering the origins, development, and impact of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
“I Was Ready To Be Sought Out By Those Who Did Not Ask,” Samuel Balentine Form Criticism in Transition: Penitential Prayer and Lament, Sitz im Leben and Form, Mark J. Boda Socio-Ideological Setting or Settings for Penitential Prayers?, Dalit Rom-Shiloni The Speech Act of Confession: Priestly Performative Utterance in Leviticus 16 and Ezra 9–10, Jay C. Hogewood Lament Regained in Trito-Isaiah’s Penitential Prayer, Richard J. Bautch The Affirmation of Divine Righteousness in Early Penitential Prayers: A Sign of Judaism’s Entry into the Axial Age, William Morrow“…why do you let us stray from your paths...” (Isa 63:17): The concept of guilt in the communal lament Isa 63:7–64:11, Judith Gärtner When None Repents, Earth Laments: The Chorus of Lament in Jeremiah and Joel, Katherine M. Hayes Penitential Prayer within Its Literary Settings, Michael Duggan Confession as Theological Expression: Ideological Origins of Penitential Prayer, Mark J. Boda Afterword, Samuel Balentine
