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    Esther G. Chazon, with the collaboration of Ruth Clements and Avital Pinnick, eds. Liturgical Perspectives: Prayer and Poetry in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium of the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, 19-23 January 2000. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming 2003.



    Preface
    vii
    Abbreviations x

      Qumran Laments and the Study of Lament Literature
      ADELE BERLIN
      1

      Poetry and Prose in 4Q371–373 Narrative and Poetic Composition a,b,c
      MOSHE BERNSTEIN
      19

      Human and Angelic Prayer in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls
      ESTHER CHAZON
      35

      Qumran and the Roots of the Rosh Hashanah Liturgy
      TORLEIF ELGVIN
      49

      Apotropaic Prayers in the Second Temple Period
      ESTHER ESHEL
      69

      Another Fragment (3a) of 4QShirot 'Olat Ha-Shabbat b (4Q401)
      HANAN ESHEL
      89

      A Temple Prayer for Fast Days
      DAVID LEVINE
      95

      Prayers for Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Traditional Jewish Liturgy
      BILHAH NITZAN
      113

      The Second Temple Period, Qumran Research, and Rabbinic Liturgy: Some Contextual and Linguistic Comparisons
      STEFAN REIF
      133

      Communal Prayer at Qumran and Among the Rabbis: Certainties and Uncertainties
      RICHARD SARASON
      151

      Some Reflections on the Function and Use of Poetical Texts among the Dead Sea Scrolls
      EILEEN SCHULLER
      173

      The Number of Psalms in 1QHodayot a and Some of their Sections
      HARTMUT STEGEMANN
      191

      Ma'amadot: A Second Temple Non-Temple Liturgy
      JOSEPH TABORY
      235

      The Litany ‘Our God in Heaven’ and Its Precedents in the Dead Sea Scrolls
      MOSHE WEINFELD
      263

      Index of Modern Authors
      271
      Index of Ancient Sources
      275