Prayer in the Hebrew Bible
by Balentine, Samuel E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-03-01
Publisher(s): Fortress Pr
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Summary
Balentine invites the reader to consider several aspects of prayer in the Hebrew Bible: prayer and the depiction of character, prayer and the characterization of God, prayers for divine justice, the lament tradition, sensible praise, prayer in Old Testament theology, and the motif of the church as "a house of prayer".
Table of Contents
| Editor's Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Abbreviations | |
| The Subject and the Interpreter | p. 1 |
| The Context of the Church | p. 3 |
| The Context of the Academy | p. 6 |
| The Method | p. 13 |
| Previous Studies: Comparative Religion and Form Criticism | p. 13 |
| The Present Approach: Literary and Theological Functions | p. 18 |
| In the Beginning God | p. 33 |
| God's Relatedness to Humanity | p. 34 |
| God's Relatedness to the World | p. 38 |
| Prayer and the Depiction of Character | p. 48 |
| Prayer as a Means of Confirming Status | p. 50 |
| Prayer as a Means of Caricature | p. 64 |
| The Temple as a House of Prayer | p. 80 |
| Prayer and the Characterization of God | p. 89 |
| Prayers for Divine Intervention | p. 91 |
| Prayers of Penitence | p. 103 |
| Prayers for Divine Justice | p. 118 |
| Three Basic Features | p. 120 |
| Examples of Prayers for Justice | p. 123 |
| Prayer as a Vehicle of Theodicy | p. 139 |
| The Lament Tradition: Holding to God against God | p. 146 |
| Jeremiah's Confessions | p. 150 |
| Job | p. 168 |
| Habakkuk | p. 183 |
| Perspectives on Theodicy in the Hebrew Bible | p. 189 |
| Praise That Makes Sense | p. 199 |
| The Baruk Sentences | p. 203 |
| Extended Hymnic Pieces in Narrative Contexts | p. 213 |
| Prayer in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible | p. 225 |
| The Neglect of the Subject "Prayer" in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible | p. 225 |
| Retrospect and Prospect: The Need for a Study of the Study | p. 246 |
| The Theology in Hebraic Prayer | p. 260 |
| The Divine-Human Relationship Is Fundamentally Dialogical | p. 261 |
| Prayer's Portrait of God | p. 264 |
| Prayer's Portrait of Humanity | p. 267 |
| Prayer as a Constitutive Act of Faith | p. 268 |
| House of Prayer or Den of Robbers? | |
| A Summons to the Church | p. 272 |
| Keeping The Community in God | p. 273 |
| Keeping God in the Community | p. 284 |
| Index of Modern Authors | p. 297 |
| Index of Scripture References | p. 302 |
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