On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer: Talmudic Ritual Recitations with Non-Divine Addressees

Name: On the Boundaries of Talmudic Prayer: Talmudic Ritual Recitations with Non-Divine Addressees
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Author: Yehuda Septimus
ISBN: 9783161534218

by Yehuda Septimus

Hardback
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
16.4 x 23.9 x 2 cm

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The English term prayer is usually understood as communication with God or the gods. Scholars of Jewish ritual until now have accepted this characterization and applied it to Jewish tefillah. Does rabbinic prayer indeed necessarily entail second-person address to God, as many scholars of rabbinic prayer to this point have presumed? In this work, Yehuda Septimus investigates a boundary phenomenon of talmudic prayer - ritual speech with addressees other than God. The book represents a fresh look at the possible range of performances undertaken by talmudic ritual prayer. Moreover, it places that range of performances into the historical context of the rapid emergence of prayer as the centerpiece of Jewish worship in the first half of the first millennium CE.