Das Gebet im Neuen Testament

This collection of essays presents the papers given at the Fourth European Orthodox-Western Symposium of Biblical Scholars in Sambata de Sus, Romania. The Symposium is part of the activities of the Eastern Europe Liaison Committee of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. The main topics of the essays are prayer in late Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity, prayer to Jesus in the New Testament, prayers in Paul and in the Pauline tradition, the »Our Father« in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke and in the Jesus tradition. In the second section, the volume includes additional studies on prayer in ancient Judaism, the New Testament and in the early church traditions. These essays deal with prayer in the Gospels of Luke and John, the Book of Revelation, ancient Hellenistic Judaism, early Christian martyr traditions, and in the Church Fathers (Aphrahat, John Chrysostom).