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Article: Praying by the Book: The Scripturalization of Prayer in Second Temple Judaism
- Article from:
- The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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JUDITH H. NEWMAN, Praying by the Book: The Scripturalization of Prayer in Second Temple Judaism (SBLEJL 14; Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999). Pp. x + 283. $49.
This book is a revision of a 1996 Harvard doctoral dissertation. Newman, the author, defines scripturalization as ". . . the reuse of biblical texts or interpretive traditions to shape the composition of new literature" (p. 13). N. chooses to focus on the Second Temple period because of the wide spectrum of literature that is available and the lack of scholarly attention that has been paid to it in reference to prayer.
Newman argues that the scriptural ization process of Second Temple prayers occurred in three major ways. One was the ...