Prayer in the Hebrew Bible

by Samuel E. Balentine

Book Overview

Balentine has forged new categories of analysis beyond our old critical pigeonholes. In the end, he has shown that prayer is neither a marginal activity undertaken after intellectual analysis nor an act of piety to fend off critical study . . . These prayer texts have required and permitted much hard, disciplined work in the long traditioning process. Now they offer to us an act of communication and a special world that refuses the voicelessness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080062615X
• ISBN13: 9780800626150
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"