Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Edited by John Barton, Ronald Hendel, Reinhard G. Kratz and Markus Witte Volume 486 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period Edited by Mika S. Pajunen and Jeremy Penner Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM ISBN 978-3-11-044774-3 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-044926-6 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-044853-5 ISSN 0934-2575 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck Typesetting: Dörlemann Satz, Lemförde ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM Acknowledgements We wish to warmly thank the following people and institutions, without whom the present volume would not have been possible. The two workshops on the functions of psalms in 2015, where the papers in this volume were first presented, were generously funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS), the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, and the Academy of Finland Center of Exellence: Changes in Sacred Texts and Tra- ditions (CSTT). This generous funding allowed us to assemble a talented group of international scholars for a two-part conference in Copenhagen and Helsinki. Our heartfelt thanks go to Dr. Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme, Dr. Trine Bjørnung Hasselbalch, Dr. Årstein Justnes, Dr. Jessi Orpana, and Katri Antin for planning and organizing the conferences, the contributors for their hard work and commit- ment to participate, and the series editors at de Gruyter for accepting this volume in the BZAW series and for their guiding comments and suggestions. Finally, on a more personal note, we would like to thank Professor (emerita) Eileen Schul- ler for her tireless and generous support of her students and colleagues, for her outstanding commitment and contributions to understanding both ancient and modern worship, and for inspiring and teaching a generation of colleagues and students. It is to her that we would like to dedicate this volume. Mika S. Pajunen Jeremy Penner Brought to you by | Stockholm University Library Authenticated Download Date | 10/31/17 10:03 PM Brought to you by | Stockholm University Library Authenticated Download Date | 10/31/17 10:03 PM Table of contents Introduction   1 Eileen Schuller Psalms, Hymns, and Prayers in Late Second Temple Judaism   5 Part 1: Psalms, Prayers, and Embodied Religion Jutta Jokiranta Towards a Cognitive Theory of Blessing: The Dead Sea Scrolls as a Test Case   27 Rodney A. Werline The Imprecatory Features of Psalms of Solomon 4 and 12   48 Carol Newsom Toward a Genealogy of the Introspective Self in Second Temple Judaism   63 Angela Kim Harkins The Function of Prayers of Ritual Mourning in the Second Temple Period   80 Part 2: Psalms, Prayers, and Penitential Themes Else K. Holt “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean”: Psalm 51, Penitential Piety, and Cultic Language in Axial Age Thinking   105 Ingunn Aadland Prayer and Remembrance in Sapiential Work (4Q185)   122 Corinna Körting Lamentations: Time and Setting   137 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM VIII   Table of contents Part 3: Material Issues and the Ordering of Psalms and Prayers in Collections Kipp Davis Structure, Stichometry, and Standardization: An Analysis of Scribal Features in a Selection of the Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls   155 Joseph Angel Reading the Songs of the Sage in Sequence: Preliminary Observations and Questions   185 David Willgren Did David Lay Down His Crown? Reframing Issues of Deliberate Juxtaposition and Interpretive Contexts in the “Book” of Psalms with Psalm 147 as a Case in Point   212 Part 4: Psalms, Prayers, and Prophecy Jesper Høgenhaven Psalms as Prophecy: Qumran Evidence for the Reading of Psalms as Prophetic Text and the Formation of the Canon   231 Mika S. Pajunen Exodus and Exile as Prototypes of Justice: Prophecies in the Psalms of Solomon and Barkhi Nafshi Hymns   252 Part 5: Psalms, Prayers, History and Identity Marc Zvi Brettler Those Who Pray Together Stay Together: The Role of Late Psalms in Creating Identity   279 George J. Brooke Praying History in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Memory, Identity, Fulfilment   305 Anja Klein Fathers and Sons: Family Ties in the Historical Psalms   320 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM Table of contents   IX Part 6: The Composition and Use of Psalms and Prayers Adele Berlin Speakers and Scenarios: Imagining the First Temple in Second Temple Psalms (Psalms 122 and 137)   341 Marko Marttila Ben Sira’s Use of Various Psalm Genres   356 Marika Pulkkinen “There is no one righteous”: Paul’s Use of Psalms in Romans 3   384 Årstein Justness Philippians 2:6–11 as a Christological Psalm from the 20th Century   410 Bibliography   425 Index of Ancient Sources   467 Index of Modern Authors   501 Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM Unauthenticated Download Date | 4/22/18 1:35 PM