Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human DialogueFortress Press, 01/05/1993 - 328 من الصفحات 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". |
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الصفحة x
... practice of prayer . Rather , prayer is held very close to the crises and possibilities of social reality . The results of literary analysis — that prayer is a mode of consti- tutive characterization , and the results of sociological ...
... practice of prayer . Rather , prayer is held very close to the crises and possibilities of social reality . The results of literary analysis — that prayer is a mode of consti- tutive characterization , and the results of sociological ...
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... practice of prayer . In the end , Balentine has established two points that will be crucial for subsequent discussion . First the practice of prayer , the claims of theology and the power of faith are integrally related . This may not ...
... practice of prayer . In the end , Balentine has established two points that will be crucial for subsequent discussion . First the practice of prayer , the claims of theology and the power of faith are integrally related . This may not ...
الصفحة 1
... practice of prayer as so pervasive in most com- munities of faith , so commonly — even routinely — the habit of most believers , that a study of prayer seems unnecessary . Indeed , some quarters may view such a study as an academic ...
... practice of prayer as so pervasive in most com- munities of faith , so commonly — even routinely — the habit of most believers , that a study of prayer seems unnecessary . Indeed , some quarters may view such a study as an academic ...
الصفحة 2
... practice enough self - knowl- edge and self - criticism to be aware of what we are doing . " 2 When I first read Brueggemann's article I was already involved in the early stages of research into the prayers of the Hebrew Bible . I was ...
... practice enough self - knowl- edge and self - criticism to be aware of what we are doing . " 2 When I first read Brueggemann's article I was already involved in the early stages of research into the prayers of the Hebrew Bible . I was ...
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... practiced in my experience . On the one hand I learned from both family devotions and from cor- porate worship that prayer is an integral part of those occasions when people consciously seek to communicate with God . In my home Bible ...
... practiced in my experience . On the one hand I learned from both family devotions and from cor- porate worship that prayer is an integral part of those occasions when people consciously seek to communicate with God . In my home Bible ...
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In the Beginning God | 33 |
Gods Relatedness to Humanity | 34 |
Gods Relatedness to the World | 38 |
Jeremiahs Confessions | 150 |
Job | 168 |
Habakkuk | 183 |
Perspectives on Theodicy in the Hebrew Bible | 189 |
Praise That Makes Sense | 199 |
The Bārūk Sentences | 203 |
Extended Hymnic Pieces in Narrative Contexts | 213 |
Prayer in the Theology of the Hebrew Bible | 225 |
Prayer and the Depiction of Character | 48 |
Prayer as a Means of Confirming Status | 50 |
Prayer as a Means of Caricature | 64 |
The Temple as a House of Prayer | 80 |
Prayer and the Characterization of God | 89 |
Prayers for Divine Intervention | 91 |
Prayers for Penitence | 103 |
Prayers for Divine Justice | 118 |
Three Basic Features | 120 |
Examples of Prayers for Justice | 123 |
Prayer as a Vehicle of Theodicy | 139 |
The Lament Tradition Holding to God against God | 146 |
The Need for a Study of the Study | 246 |
The Theology in Hebraic Prayer | 260 |
The DivineHuman Relationship Is Fundamentally Dialogical | 261 |
Prayers Portrait of God | 264 |
Prayers Portrait of Humanity | 267 |
Prayer as a Constitutive Act of Faith | 268 |
House of Prayer or Den of Robbers? A Summons to the Church | 272 |
Keeping the Community in God | 273 |
Keeping God in the Community | 284 |
Index of Modern Authors | 297 |
Index of Scripture References | 302 |
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affirmation Alten Testament Balentine bārûk sentences biblical scholarship Book of Jeremiah Book of Job Brueggemann chapter character church complaint concerning confession Corvin covenant crisis cultic Deuteronomistic dialogue discussion divine justice divine response divine-human doxology Eichrodt Elijah emphasis Esau evil exilic Exod faith focus forgiveness form criticism Fortress Fretheim function Gebet God's Greenberg Habakkuk heaven Hebraic prayer Hebrew Bible theology Hezekiah historical house of prayer human Ibid idem interpretation Israel Israelite issue Jacob Jehoshaphat Jeremiah Job's John Knox Jonah Judges judgment Kings literary liturgical LORD Moses narrative context Neukirchen NRSV Old Testament Theology perspective petition Philadelphia piety portrayed Praise and Lament pray prayer of Jacob present prophet prose prayers provides Psalms question relationship religion Reventlow rhetorical righteous Samuel scholars Solomon's specific speech structure suffering suggests summons temple theodicy tion tradition understanding verses Walter Brueggemann Westermann words worship Yahweh Yhwh
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الصفحة 177 - Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding : Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness ; And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
الصفحة 86 - Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant ; even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer : their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar ; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
الصفحة 79 - Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?
الصفحة 92 - Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, and have cast their gods into the fire : for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone ; therefore they have destroyed them.
الصفحة 146 - No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, never, never, never, never!
الصفحة 143 - Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty? 8 It is higher than heaven — what can you do? Deeper than Sheol — what can you know?
الصفحة 36 - God?" Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases. Their idols are silver and gold. the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.
الصفحة 177 - Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me.
الصفحة 146 - The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most : we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.