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Discovering the Traditions of Prose Prayers in Early Jewish Literature (Library of Second Temple Studies) is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Michael D. Matlock analyzes five lengthy biblical prose prayers from the exilic and post-exilic period: Solomon’s prayer (1 Kings 8.14–61), Ezra’s prayer (Ezra 9.5–15), Nehemiah’s prayer (Nehemiah 1.4–11), the Levites’ prayer (Nehemiah 9.4–37), and the prayer of Daniel (Daniel 9:3–19). He also examines prayers from Second Temple literature, including texts from the Apocrypha and...

18 Frag. 1.15b [At that point he (Joseph) cried out,] 16 calling upon the mighty God to save him from their power. He said, ‘My Father and my God, do not abandon me into the power of the nations. 17 Render justice on my behalf, lest the poor and oppressed should perish. You need no nation or people 18 for any help. Your mere finger is bigger, stronger, than anything on the earth. Surely you prove what is true;
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