Prayer in the Hebrew Bible
The Drama of Divine-Human Dialogue
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Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human Dialogue
Balentine has forged new categories of
analysis beyond our old critical
pigeonholes. In the end, he has shown that
prayer is neither a marginal activity
undertaken after intellectual analysis nor
an act of piety to fend off critical study .
. . These prayer texts have required and
permitted much hard, disciplined work in the
long traditioning process. Now they offer to
us an act of communication and a special
world that refuses the voicelessness of
technical society. In this world of Israel's
faithful prayer and prayerful faith, the
heavens are not empty, and the earth need
not be mute.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800626150
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 328
- Publication Date May 1, 1993
Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Subject and the Interpreter
2. The Method
3. In the Beginning God
4. Prayer and the Depiction of Character
5. Prayer and the Characterization of God
6. Prayers for Divine Justice
7. The Lament Tradition: Holding to God against God
8. Praise That Makes Sense
9. Prayer in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible
10. The Theology in Hebraic Prayer
11. House of Prayer or Den of Robbers?
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Scripture References
Preface
Abbreviations
1. The Subject and the Interpreter
2. The Method
3. In the Beginning God
4. Prayer and the Depiction of Character
5. Prayer and the Characterization of God
6. Prayers for Divine Justice
7. The Lament Tradition: Holding to God against God
8. Praise That Makes Sense
9. Prayer in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible
10. The Theology in Hebraic Prayer
11. House of Prayer or Den of Robbers?
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Scripture References