My Lips Play Flute for the Highest

Jewish Hymns and Prayers Before Jesus

Torleif Elgvin

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Cascade Books
21 November 2024

Bibles; Judaism: life & practice

My Lips Play Flute for the Highest presents fifty-five poetic texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and other early Jewish writings: hymns, psalms, liturgies, petitions, visions, and end-time scenarios. In psalms and prayers we may come close to the souls of ancient Judeans, who pour out their sufferings, laments, hopes, and praises to their God. We encounter a plurality of end-time hopes, with or without messianic actors on earth. Jewish piety from the last two centuries before the turn of the era emerges vibrant and powerful, but also sensitive and full of hope. Introductions to the various scrolls and writings inform readers about how scholars understand these texts and where scholarship locates them in time and space. This book provides a moving and vital entry into early Judaism, before the emergence of the Jesus movement and rabbinic Judaism.

By: Torleif Elgvin
Imprint: Cascade Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 463g
ISBN: 9781666770025
ISBN 10: 1666770027
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 21 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Torleif Elgvin is emeritus professor of biblical and Jewish studies at NLA University College in Oslo. He has a PhD in biblical studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was from 1992 part of the Dead Sea Scrolls publication team. His recent books include The Literary Growth of the Song of Songs in the Hasmonean and Early-Herodian Periods (2018) and Warrior, King, Servant, Savior: Messianism in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Texts (2022).

Reviews for My Lips Play Flute for the Highest: Jewish Hymns and Prayers Before Jesus

""This attractive anthology of early Jewish poetic texts shows that the early Christian writings were composed against the background of Jewish society around the turn of the era. An expert in all these texts, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, Torleif Elgvin has superbly selected, presented, and introduced these texts."" --Emanuel Tov, professor of Bible, Hebrew University of Jerusalem ""This innovative and very worthwhile collection of texts reveals the riches of Jewish views of God and the world in the three centuries before the Roman destruction of the Temple in AD 70. Here are ancient writings that are prayerfully poignant and spiritually sonorous in modern translations that are poetically perceptive and hymnically harmonious."" --George J. Brooke, professor emeritus of biblical criticism and exegesis, University of Manchester