Undercurrents of Jewish Prayer

by Schonfield, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9781904113003
• ISBN10: 1904113001
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-26
• Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization in association with Liverpool University Press

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text	xv
Note on Extracts from the Liturgy	xvii
List of Extracts	xix
PART I
1. The Incuriousness of the Jewish Worshipper	3	(19)
2. The Reticence of the Ideal Reader	22	(25)
3. The Liturgical Narrative: Modern and Traditional Views	47
PART II
BIRKHOT HASHAHAR
4. The Darkness of Waking	67	(14)
5. The Bonds of Freedom	81	(28)
6. The Silence of Language	109	(41)
7. Building in Babel	150	(21)
8. The Scattering	171	(32)
9. The Imagined Temple	203
PESUKEI DEZIMRA
10. Hope in Words	247	(64)
PART III
11. The Liturgical Argument Encapsulated	311	(14)
12. Other Versions, Other Readings	325
APPENDIX Photographs of Ritual Objects Used in Prayer
1. Vessel used for ritual hand-washing	349	(1)
2. The arba kanfot—the four-cornered undergarment	350	(1)
3. The taut a four-cornered prayer-shawl and decorative bag	351	(1)
4. A selection of tefilin	352	(1)
5. Inside view of tefilin for the head	353	(1)
6. A parchment scroll of the Shema, of the kind contained in tefilin	354	(1)
7. A detail of the outside of tefilin for the head	355	(1)
8. A taut and tefilin in use	356	(1)
9. A taut and tefilin in use, showing the arrangement of straps	357	(2)
Bibliography	359	(16)
Index of Biblical and Rabbinic References	375	(8)
Index of Subjects and Names	383