The Lord's Prayer: Origins and Early Interpretations (Studia Traditionis Theologiae)
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (519 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2503565379 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 258 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Outstanding J.C.M27 This is an exceptional book. A very clear and intimate look at the Lord's Prayer. Definitely for the more accelerated reader however.
The process of transformation is discerned in various texts: the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the Didache, and Tertullian's De oratione. The meaning of the Lord's Prayer is to be found not just in its 'original sense,' but in the history of its meaning. Biblical texts invite - even urge - new interpretations. This work traces the beginning chapters of a two-thousand-year-story which we ourselves continue to shape.. They would offer sacrifices not of animals, but of prayer. This work presents the early interpretive history of the Lord's Prayer. To a significant degree, each of these interpreters built upon the foundation which Jesus had established. In first-century Palestine, a revival was taking place. It was in this setting that Jesus taught his followers to say, ""Our Father in heaven ""Over the course of two centuries, this Jewish prayer became a central feature of Christian ritual. Yet they also created innovatory significance, forms and functions for this simple prayer. Many Jews wer
Clark covers an extraordinary wide range of material on the background to, as well as the meaning and reception of the Lord's Prayer. He begins with conceptions of prayer in the second temple period, and then covers the meaning of the Lord's Prayer for Jesus himself, the manner in which the Lord's Prayer was then presented in the early surviving texts, and finally the reception of the prayer through the beginning of the third century. He has brought a great amount of material together into a unified narrative of the history behind and reception of the Lord's PrayerHe has well fulfilled his goal of showing how exploring the history of reception of a text could be an important part of exploring the text'