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PRAYER FROM ALEXANDER TO CONSTANTINE Prayer from Alexander to Constantine presents and contextualizes approximately fifty prayer texts covering a span of 650 years. It includes prayers from Jewish, Christian and pagan religions. The volume, through individual analysis of each prayer by specialist scholars, provides an invaluably wide study of an area which has, for too long, been fragmented by the specializations of current academic disciplines. The anthology is the product of an international working group of the Society of Biblical Literature. While the anthology presents prayers of different religions, it demonstrates the formal similarities of prayers of the Greco-Roman period, whether they be Jewish, pagan or Christian. They include the features of petition, intercession, thanksgiving and adoration. Prayer from Alexander to Constantine is an invaluable study for any student of theology or the classics. It is also of interest to the more general reader since it may be used as a primary text for theologizing in the twentieth century and beyond. The similarities found within it demonstrate anew the possibilities of finding common turf among the modern-day religions of the world. Mark Kiley is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy/ Theology division in St John’s University, New York. 2 PRAYER FROM ALEXANDER TO CONSTANTINE A critical anthology Introduced and edited by Mark Kiley et al. 3 First published 1997 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Selection and editorial matter © 1997 Mark Kiley Individual contributions © the contributors All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book has been requested 4 ISBN 0-415-13234-7 0-415-13235-5 (pbk) 5 Nothing human is alien to me Terence 6 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Moshe J. Bernstein Esther G. Chazon Randall D. Chesnutt Judith Newman Mark Harding Luther H. Martin Larry J. Alderink Bonnie Thurston Barbara E. Bowe John Clabeaux 7 CONTENTS List of contributors Preface and Acknowledgements List of abbreviations General Introduction Mark Kiley PART I JUDAICA 1 An introduction to prayer at Qumran Esther G. Chazon and Moshe J. Bernstein 2 A thanksgiving for God’s help (4Q434 ii–iii) Edward M. Cook 3 Apostrophe to Zion (11Q Psalms Scroll 22:1–15) Lawrence H. Schiffman 4 Dibre Hamme’orot: Prayer for the Sixth Day (4Q504 1–2 v–vi) Esther G. Chazon 5 Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice Carol A. Newsom 6 Hymn on Occasions for Prayer (1QS 10:8b–17) Moshe J. Bernstein 7 Prayers in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Randall D. Chesnutt and Judith Newman 8 8 In misery, Tobit prays for death (3:1–6) Carey A. Moore 9 God condemns the arrogance of power: the prayer in 3 Maccabees 6:2–15 Judith Newman 10 Prayer of Noah: Jubilees 10:3–6 John C. Endres, S.J. 11 Judith prays for help (Judith 9:1–14) Toni Craven 12 Prayer of a convert to Judaism (Joseph and Aseneth 12–13) Randall D. Chesnutt 13 The Song of Hannah in Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities Joan E. Cook 14 2 Baruch 54:1–22 F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp 15 Josephus and Philo Mark Harding 16 The prayer of Moses in Josephus, Antiquities 2:335–7 Mark Harding 17 Philo of Alexandria: two prayers 9 Gregory E. Sterling 18 The Shema and the Amidah: rabbinic prayer Reuven Kimelman PART II GREEKS AND ROMANS 19 Prayer in Greco-Roman religions Larry J. Alderink and Luther H. Martin 20 Cato the Elder C. Robert Phillips, III 21 Cleanthes – Hymn to Zeus William Cassidy 22 Catullus 34: a prayer to Diana by C. Valerius Catullus Frederick W. Danker 23 The oath of Aeneas: Vergil, Aeneid 12.176–94 Frances Hickson-Hahn 24 A prayer of Scipio Africanus: Livy 29.27.2–4 Frances Hickson-Hahn 25 The Isis hymn of Diodorus of Sicily (1.27.3) Mark Gustafson 26 Written in stone: a prayer to Augustus Dan Schowalter 10
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