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[ JSHJ 2.2 (2004) 230-231] ISSN 1476-8690 © The Continuum Publishing Group Ltd 2004, The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX and 315 East 26th Street, Suite 1703, New York, NY 10010, USA. B OOK L IST Books on the Historical Jesus AUVINEN, Ville, Jesus’ Teaching on Prayer (Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2003), pb, viii + 311 pp. ISBN 951-765-148-1. This dissertation from the Åbo Akademi University under the guidance of Karl-Gustav Sandelin is an examination of Jesus’ teaching on prayer. After a methodological introduction, the work sets the context of prayer in the Hebrew Bible, in Early Judaism and in Early Rabbinic Judaism. Jesus’ sayings concerning prayer are analyzed according to four sources: Q, Mark, Matthew’s special material and Luke’s special material. Auvinen concludes that Jesus’ teaching on prayer, while rooted in his Jewish heritage does reveal some distinctive emphases, including his lack of concern for the ‘outer conditions of prayer’ and his emphasis on the prayer address of ‘Father’ which was ‘one of the most marginal Jewish prayer addresses’. The social significance of Jesus’ teaching on prayer is that it ‘was a means of coping with the everyday anguish for the poor, Galilean
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2004
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