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At the heart of this study is a biblical-theological approach to central passages on intercessory prayers in the OT. After examining these largely prophetic prayer dialogues, Widmer argues that they provide an important key to biblical theology and spirituality. Furthermore, a close reading of prayers by Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, and Amos reveals fascinating insights into the portrayals of these characters and confirms strong conceptual associations with Moses, Israel’s archetypal mediator. Widmer reads these prayers in both their immediate literary and wider canonical contexts. The ultimate aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of the God whom the church worships and confesses to be the Father of Jesus Christ.Particularly pertinent is the finding that many OT prayers interact with God’s nature as revealed to Moses in Exod 34:6–7. Yhwh’s fullest revelation is also given in the context of an intercessory prayer. Widmer argues that intercessory prayer and theology have a hermeneutical-spiral relationship, mutually informing and correcting each other. It is in engaging with a loving and holy God that the phenomenon of divine mutability must be understood. Overall, Standing in the Breach suggests that fundamental biblical themes such as God’s mercy and judgment, divine retribution and forgiveness, covenant mediation, substitutionary suffering and atonement, and eventually the dynamics of the cross are all intrinsically related to and illuminated by prophetic OT intercessory prayers.

Intercessory prayer --- Intercession (Prayer) --- Prayer --- Biblical teaching. --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Theology. --- Biblical teaching --- Bible. Old Testament --- Theology

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The oldest parts of the Book of Jeremiah, that according to K.-F. Pohlmann (1978), C. Levin (1985), K. Schmid (1996) and others can be found in Jeremiah 4-6, 8-10, complain of the devastation of the country by an enemy coming from the north. However, they do not name the name Jeremiah, nor can they be called "prophetic" in the ancient Near Eastern sense. In this aspect, the lamentations in Jeremiah 4: 19-22; 6.9 to 15; 8.18 to 23; 10,19-25 are subjected to a historical-critical examination and to a comprehensive comparison with the ancient Near Eastern literature of kalu. The results of the comparative study as well as the findings on the non-Biblical, ancient Near Eastern relationship of lament and prophetic literature present a new perspective on the genesis of the Jeremiah book. Because the core of the book is based on cultic complaints, lines of editorial history can be drawn on the one hand into Jeremiah's court prophecy and on the other hand into the further development of the lamentation theme up to the so-called "confessions." Further, the texts examined in Jeremiah 4-6; 8-10; 7; 11; 14-15 offer new conclusions about the representation of the literary Jeremiah as an intercessor and court prophet.

Intercessory prayer --- Laments in the Bible --- 224.3 --- 224.3 Jeremias. Lamentationes. Klaagliederen --- 224.3 Jeremie. Lamentations de Jeremie --- Jeremias. Lamentationes. Klaagliederen --- Jeremie. Lamentations de Jeremie --- Intercession (Prayer) --- Prayer --- Biblical teaching --- Jeremiah --- Ieremii︠a︡ --- Jeremia --- Jeremiah, --- Jérémie --- Jeremy --- Yirmeyahu --- ירמיהו --- Bible. --- Jeremiabuch --- Jeremiah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Jérémie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Livre de Jérémie --- Yirmeyah (Book of the Old Testament) --- Yirmeyahu (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Eremia

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In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and magic were made to serve memory and scholasticism. In the visionary literature that circulated between the fifth and ninth centuries, there are strange tales of ancient rabbis conjuring the angel known as Sar-Torah, the "Prince of the Torah." This angel endowed the rabbis themselves with spectacular memory and skill in learning, and then taught them the formulas for giving others these gifts. This literature, according to Michael Swartz, gives us rare glimpses of how ancient and medieval Jews who stood outside the mainstream of rabbinic leadership viewed Torah and ritual. Through close readings of the texts, he uncovers unfamiliar dimensions of the classical Judaic idea of Torah and the rabbinic civilization that forged them.Swartz sets the stage for his analysis with a discussion of the place of memory and orality in ancient and medieval Judaism and how early educational and physiological theories were marshaled for the cultivation of memory. He then examines the unusual magical rituals for conjuring angels and ascending to heaven as well as the authors' attitudes to authority and tradition, showing them to have subverted essential rabbinic values even as they remained beholden to them. The result is a ground-breaking analysis of the social and conceptual background of rabbinic Judaism and ancient Mediterranean religions. Offering complete translations of the principal Sar-Torah texts, Scholastic Magic will become essential reading for those interested in religions in the ancient and medieval world, ritual studies, and popular religion.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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