Liturgical perspectives
Subtitle: prayer and poetry in light of the Dead Sea scrolls : proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23, January, 2000
By: edited by Esther G. Chazon with the collaboration of Ruth Clements & Avital Pinnick.
Contributors: Chazon, Esther G.; Clements, Ruth.; Pinnick, Avital.
Series: Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah -- v. 48
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Dead Sea scrolls -- Congresses.; Judaism -- Liturgy -- Congresses.; Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew -- West Bank -- Qumran Site -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Abbreviations; title: Qumran Laments and the Study of Lament Literature / Adele Berlin; title: Poetry and Prose in 4Q371-373 Narrative and Poetic Composition abc / Moshe J. Bernstein; title: Human and Angelic Prayer in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Esther G. Chazon; title: Qumran and the Roots of the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy / Torleif Elgvin; title: Apotropaic Prayers in the Second Temple Period / Esther Eshel; title: Another Fragment (3a) of 4QShirot 'Olat HaShabbat b (4Q401) / Hanan Eshel; title: A Temple Prayer for Fast-Days / David Levine; title: Prayers for Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Traditional Jewish Liturgy / Bilhah Nitzan; title: The Second Temple Period, Qumran Research, and Rabbinic Liturgy: Some Contextual and Linguistic Comparisons / Stefan C. Reif; title: Communal Prayer at Qumran and Among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties / Richard S. Sarason; title: Some Reflections on the Function and Use of Poetical Texts Among the Dead Sea Scrolls / Eileen M. Schuller; title: The Number of Psalms in 1QHodayol a and Some of Their Sections / Hartmut Stegmann; title: Ma'amadot: A Second Temple Non-Temple Liturgy / Joseph Tabory; title: The Litany "Our God in Heaven" and Its Precedents in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Moshe Weinfeld; title: Index of Modern Authors; title: Index of Ancient Sources.