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Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text | p. xv |
Note on Extracts from the Liturgy | p. xvii |
List of Extracts | p. xix |
The Incuriousness of the Jewish Worshipper | p. 3 |
The Reticence of the Ideal Reader | p. 22 |
The Liturgical Narrative: Modern and Traditional Views | p. 47 |
Birkhot Hashahar | |
The Darkness of Waking | p. 67 |
The Bonds of Freedom | p. 81 |
The Silence of Language | p. 109 |
Building in Babel | p. 150 |
The Scattering | p. 171 |
The Imagined Temple | p. 203 |
Pesukei Dezimra | |
Hope in Words | p. 247 |
The Liturgical Argument Encapsulated | p. 311 |
Other Versions, Other Readings | p. 325 |
Appendix | |
Photographs of Ritual Objects Used in Prayer | |
Vessel used for ritual hand-washing | p. 349 |
The arba kanfot-the four-cornered undergarment | p. 350 |
The talit-a four-cornered prayer-shawl-and decorative bag | p. 351 |
A selection of tefilin | p. 352 |
Inside view of tefilin for the head | p. 353 |
A parchment scroll of the Shema, of the kind contained in tefilin | p. 354 |
A detail of the outside of tefilin for the head | p. 355 |
A talit and tefilin in use | p. 356 |
A talit and tefilin in use, showing the arrangement of straps | p. 357 |
Bibliography | p. 359 |
Index of Biblical and Rabbinic References | p. 375 |
Index of Subjects and Names | p. 383 |
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