Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament.Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament An Overview Prayer in the New Testament is presented as a positive command (Colossians 4:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:17). The People of God are challenged to include prayer in their everyday life, even in the busy struggles of marriage (1 Corinthians 7:5) as it brings people . Edited by Richard N. Longenecker. McMaster New Testament Studies. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2001. xiii and 292 pages. Paper. $28.00. The twelve essays offered here present an in-depth overview of prayer in the New Testament and its religious world. Four essays briefly describe "The Setting": prayer in the Old Testament (Christopher R. Seitz), the Greco-Roman World (David E. Aune), in first-century Judaism (Asher Finkel), and the Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. (Eileen M. Schuller). The next four discuss prayer in "Jesus and the Gospels": Luke's Canticles Canticles, another name for the Song of Solomon. {Stephen Farris), Jesus as example and teacher of prayer (I. Howard Marshall I. Howard Marshall is an Emeritus Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Honorary Research Professor at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), specifically in the department of Divinity and Religious Studies. ), the Lord's Prayer as model for prayer (N. Thomas Wright), and the names of God “Holy name” redirects here. For other uses, see Holy name (disambiguation). Monotheistic faiths believe that there is and can only be one unique supreme being; polytheism means the belief in several coexisting deities. and Jesus in Johannine prayers (Andrew Lincoln). The last four essays review the non-Gospel literature: Acts (Joel B. Green), Paul (Richard N. Longenecker), Hebrews to Jude (J. Ramsey Michaels), and Revelation (Richard Bauckham). I found especially helpful the essays on Greco-Roman prayer, Jesus as model and teacher, and Paul. All of the essays are fitted out with basic English-language bibliographies. A summary article drawing conclusions from the specific discussions would have been helpful. But this is a useful book, clearly written in largely nontechnical language and so open to a wide readership. |
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