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C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lord’s Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus’ time in order to set the context for understanding the prayer he taught his disciples. Throughout the book, Black systematically interprets the rich meanings of each part of the Lord’s prayer....

Philo paraphrases God’s assertion in Exod. 3:14, “No name at all may be properly used of me, in whom all existence subsists” (Life of Moses 1.75 AT). The One Who Is transcends verbal expression and lies beyond human ken (On Dreams 1.230–31; Who Is the Heir? 170). The name God offers Moses at Sinai veils the Namer in the very moment of self-revelation. Elsewhere in Hebrew Scripture we observe a tendency to fill the name of the LORD with such authority that the Name itself becomes an effective proxy
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