Prayer in the Talmud: Forms and Patterns

✍ Scribed by Joseph Heinemann

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 332
• Series: Studia Judaica, 9
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter I: The Statutory Prayers: Their Nature, Origin and Content
Chapter II: The Development of Prayers and the Problem of the „Original Text“
Appendix to Chapter II: The „Bônäh Yerûšālayîm“ Benediction – A Comparison of the Versions
Charper III: The Patterns of the Liturgical Bera¯ka¯h and their Origins
Chapter IV: The Address „You“ in Prayer
Chapter V: Prayer in the Temple
Chapter VI: Piyyût-Forms of Temple Origin
Chapter VII: Private and Non-Statutory Prayer
Chapter VIII: Law-Court Patterns in Prayer
Appendix to Chapter VIII: Sources
Chapter IX: The Fixed Statutory Prayers of the Synagogue
Chapter X: Prayers of Bêt Midrāš Origin
Chapter XI: The Genres of Prayer and their Formai Characteristic
Appendix A: Hebrew sources to Chapter II
Appendix B: Hebrew sources to Chapter VIII
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index A: General
Index B: Prayer-Texts