Prayer from Alexander to Constantine: Critical Anthology Book

	List of contributors
	Preface and Acknowledgements
	List of Abbreviations
	General Introduction	1
Pt. I	Judaica
1	An introduction to prayer at Qumran	9
2	A thanksgiving for God's help (4Q434 ii-iii)	14
3	Apostrophe to Zion (11Q Psalms Scroll 22:1-15)	18
4	Dibre Hamme'orot: Prayer for the Sixth Day (4Q504 1-2 v-vi)	23
5	Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice	28
6	Hymn on Occasions for Prayer (1QS 10:8b-17)	33
7	Prayers in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha	38
8	In misery, Tobit prays for death (3:1-6)	43
9	God condemns the arrogance of power: the prayer in 3 Maccabees 6:2-15	48
10	Prayer of Noah: Jubilees 10:3-6	53
11	Judith prays for help (Judith 9:1-14)	59
12	Prayer of a convert to Judaism (Joseph and Aseneth 12-13)	65
13	The Song of Hannah in Pseudo-Philo's Biblical Antiquities	73
14	2 Baruch 54:1-22	79
15	Josephus and Philo	86
16	The prayer of Moses in Josephus, Antiquities 2:355-7	92
17	Philo of Alexandria: two prayers	99
18	The Shema and the Amidah: rabbinic prayer	108
Pt. II	Greeks and Romans
19	Prayer in Greco-Roman religions	123
20	Cato the Elder	128
21	Cleanthes - Hymn to Zeus	133
22	Catullus 34: a prayer to Diana by C. Valerius Catullus	139
23	The oath of Aeneas: Vergil, Aeneid 12.176-94	144
24	A prayer of Scipio Africanus: Livy 29.27.2-4	149
25	The Isis hymn on Diodorus of Sicily (1.27.3)	155
26	Written in stone: a prayer to Augustus	159
27	A secret hymn about rebirth: Corpus Hermeticum XIII.17-20	165
28	Prayer in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe	171
29	An Ephesian tale: prayers to Isis and other gods	176
30	A prayer to Sarapis in P. Oxy. 1070	181
31	The prayer in Menander Rhetor 2.445.25-446.13	185
32	Orphic Hymn 13: to Kronos	190
33	Hymn to Selene-Hecate-Artemis from a Greek magical handbook (PGM IV 2714-83)	195
34	The Hermetic Prayer of Thanksgiving, Nag Hammadi Codex VI, 7:63, 33-65, 7	200
Pt. III	Christ Traditions
35	Prayer in the New Testament	207
36	A Jesus tradition prayer (Q 11:2b-4; Matt 6:9b-13; Luke 11:2b-4; Didache 8.2)	211
37	Luke 1:46-55 The Magnificat	216
38	Jesus' 'High Priestly Prayer': John 17	222
39	Acts 4:24-30: Prayer of the friends of Peter and John in Jerusalem	230
40	Philippians 2:6-11	235
41	Colossians 1:15-20	240
42	Revelation 4:8-11; 5:9-14: heavenly hymns of creation and redemption	244
43	Post New Testament Christian prayers	250
44	1 Clement 59.3-61.3: epistolary prayer in Clement of Rome	254
45	The eucharist prayers from Didache 9 and 10	260
46	Ignatius Ephesians 19.1-3	267
47	Ode of Solomon 5: praise while contemplating persecutors	273
48	Acts of Paul and Thecla 28-31	280
49	Polycarp's final prayer (Martyrdom of Polycarp 14)	285
50	Prayer of the Apostle Paul from the Nag Hammadi Library	291
51	Hymn of the Holy Clement to Christ the Saviour: Clement of Alexandria, Pedagogue 3.12.101.4	296
52	Origen's prayer to Jesus the Footwasher	304
53	Shepherd prayer - Acts of Peter 10	309
54	The Phos Hilaron	315
	Glossary	319
	Index	323