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The evidence for daily, sabbath, and festival prayers in the Qumran scrolls is analyzed in detail, document by document in this volume. On the basis of formal features and social-liturgical setting, these prayers are compared with each other to uncover divergent prayer traditions. Comparative material beyond the scrolls is used to reassess their place in the development of Jewish prayer. Evidence for prayers of different origin found at Qumran is considered important for reconsidering the nature of the scrolls, the community(s) which used them, and the history of Jewish liturgy. Alternative reconstructions are offered for several of the texts.

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' Die Arbeit ist deshalb fur die atl. Wissenschaft von besonderer Bedeutung. ' A. Lange, Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 1999. ' more comprehensvie and more detailed and sophisticated than any other publication on this topic so far This is a very welcome book in which the author argues his case with great methodical care. ' Pieter W. van der Horst, The Jewish Studies Book Review , 1999.

' Die Arbeit ist deshalb f]r die atl. Wissenschaft von besonderer Bedeutung.'<br>A. Lange, Zeitschrift f]r die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 1999.<br>' more comprehensvie and more detailed and sophisticated than any other publication on this topic so farThis is a very welcome book in which the author argues his case with great methodical care.'<br>Pieter W. van der Horst, The Jewish Studies Book Review, 1999.<br>

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Daniel K. Falk, Ph.D. (1996) in Divinity, University of Cambridge, is Kennicott Research Fellow in Hebrew at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, and Jr. Research Fellow in Qumran at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

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