Seeking the Favor of God

The essays collected in this volume investigate the development of prayers of penitence within Jewish literature of the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The book provides a critical overview of the present state of research on these prayers and leading experts in the field use a variety of methodologies to investigate afresh various texts from the Hebrew Bible apocryphal (deuterocanonical) and pseudepigraphical works and the Qumran corpus in order to provide new insights into this prayer tradition. Contributors include Russell C. D. Arnold Esther G. Chazon Daniel K. Falk LeAnn Snow Flesher Michael H. Floyd Judith H. Newman Bilhah Nitzan Eileen Schuller Pieter M. Venter and Rodney A. Werline.Seeking the Favor of God includes three volumes covering the origins development and impact of penitential prayer in Second Temple Judaism.