Full title
The Qumran Psalter and the Medieval Palestinian Tefillat ha-Shir
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Research notes
SHS/not checked/16/11/2019
Reference type
Editor(s)
Nuria Calduch-Benages
Michael W. Duggan
Dalia Marx
Year
2019
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
On Wings of Prayer: Sources of Jewish Worship; Essays in Honor of Professor Stefan C. Reif on the Occasion of his Seventy-fifth Birthday
Issue / Series Volume
44
Series Title
Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies
Publisher
de Gruyter
Place of Publication
Berlin/Boston
Pages
299-316
Work type
Label
09/12/2019
Abstract
This article investigates the linkage between two Jewish Palestinian liturgical customs, a millennium apart: a collection of psalms attested among the Dead Sea Scrolls, best preserved in the scroll 11Q5 or 11QPsa; and the practice of Tefillat ha-Shir (“the Song”), added to Pesukei deZimrah in the Palestinian prayer books from the Cairo Genizah. Two main elements are examined: the use of the Songs of Ascent, and the emphasis on the Davidic authorship. We conclude that there is no genetic link between the two collections. Their typological resemblance, however, demonstrates the shared themes and motifs of Qumran and rabbinic prayer.