Prayer from Alexander to Constantine : A Critical Anthology

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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. 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.