Prayer In The Hebrew Bible

Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations

1. The Subject And The Interpreter
2. The Method
3. In The Beginning God
4. Prayer And The Depiction Of Character
5. Prayer And The Characterization Of God
6. Prayers For Divine Justice
7. The Lament Tradition: Holding To God Against God
8. Praise That Makes Sense
9. Prayer In The Theology Of The Hebrew Bible
10. The Theology In Hebraic Prayer
11. House Of Prayer Or Den Of Robbers?

Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Scripture References

Additional Info
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 of technical society. In this world of Israel’s faithful prayer and prayerful faith, the heavens are not empty, and the earth need not be mute.