Institutionalized Routine Prayers at Qumran: Fact or Assumption?

by Paul Heger

This book challenges scholars' assumption, without any explicit evidence, of institutionalized public prayer with fixed contents and times in the Qumran community. As the book observes, this assumption rests in part on a failure to distinguish between voluntary supplication prayers and biblically mandated blessings and thanks. The book closely examines the three Qumran writings assumed to typify prayer and critiques scholars' attempts to deduce the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3525571313
• ISBN13: 9783525571316
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"