Introduction, Mark Kiley; Part 1 Judaica; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Prayer at Qumran, Esther G. Chazon, Moshe J. Bernstein; Chapter 2 A Thanksgiving for God’s Help (4Q434 II–III), Edward M. Cook; Chapter 3 Apostrophe to Zion (11Q Psalms Scroll 22:1–15), Lawrence H. Schiffman; Chapter 4 Dibre Hamme\Orot, Esther G. Chazon; Chapter 5 Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, Carol A. Newsom; Chapter 6 Hymn on Occasions for Prayer (1QS 10:8b–17), Moshe J. Bernstein; Chapter 7 Prayers in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, Randall D. Chesnutt, Judith Newman; Chapter 8 In Misery, Tobit Prays for Death (3:1–6), Carey A. Moore; Chapter 9 God Condemns the Arrogance of Power, Judith Newman; Chapter 10 Prayer of Noah, John C. Endres, S.J.; Chapter 11 Judith Prays for Help (Judith 9:1–14), Toni Craven; Chapter 12 Prayer of a Convert to Judaism (Joseph and Aseneth 12–13), Randall D. Chesnutt; Chapter 13 The Song of Hannah in Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities, Joan E. Cook; Chapter 14 2 Baruch 54:1–22, F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp; Chapter 15 Josephus and Philo, Mark Harding; Chapter 16 The Prayer of Moses in Josephus, Antiquities 2.335–7, Mark Harding; Chapter 17 Philo of Alexandria, Gregory E. Sterling; Chapter 18 The Shema and the Amidah, Reuven Kimelman; Part 2 Greeks and Romans; Chapter 19 Prayer in Greco-Roman Religions, Larry J. Alderink, Luther H. Martin; Chapter 20 Cato the Elder, C. Robert Phillips, III; Chapter 21 Cleanthes – Hymn to Zeus, William Cassidy; Chapter 22 Catullus 34, Frederick W. Danker; Chapter 23 The Oath of Aeneas, Frances Hickson-Hahn; Chapter 24 A Prayer of Scipio Africanus, Frances Hickson-Hahn; Chapter 25 The Isis Hymn of Diodorus of Sicily (1.27.3), Mark Gustafson; Chapter 26 Written in Stone, Dan Schowalter; Chapter 27 A Secret Hymn About Rebirth, Philip Seilew; Chapter 28 Prayer in Chariton’s Chaereás and Callirhoe, Mary Lynnette Delbridge; Chapter 29 An Ephesian Tale, Agneta Enermalm; Chapter 30 A Prayer to Sarapis in P. Oxy. 1070, Robert F. Hull, Jun; Chapter 31 The Prayer in Menander Rhetor 2.445.25–446.13, Edgar Krentz; Chapter 32 Orphic Hymn 13, Larry J. Alderink; Chapter 33 Hymn to Selene–Hecate–Artemis from a Greek Magical Handbook ( PGM IV 2714–83), Christopher A. Faraone; Chapter 34 The Hermetic Prayer of Thanksgiving, Nag Hammadi Codex VI, 7: 63, 33–65, 7, Richard Valantasis; Part 3 Christ Traditions; Chapter 35 Prayer in the New Testament, Bonnie Thurston; Chapter 36 A Jesus Tradition Prayer (Q 11:2b–4; Matt 6:9b–13; Luke 11:2b–4; Didache 8.2), R. Conrad Douglas; Chapter 37 Luke 1:46–55 the Magnificat, Seung Ai Yang; Chapter 38 Jesus’ ‘High Priestly Prayer’, L. William Countryman; Chapter 39 Acts 4:24–30, Marie-Eloise Rosenblatt; Chapter 40 Philippians 2:6–11, L. W. Hurtado; Chapter 41 Colossians 1:15–20, Bonnie Thurston; Chapter 42 Revelation 4:8–11; 5:9–14, Jean-Pierre Ruiz; Chapter 43 Post New Testament Christian Prayers, Barbara E. Bowe, John Clabeaux; Chapter 44 1 Clement 59.3–61.3, Barbara E. Bowe; Chapter 45 The Eucharist Prayers from Didache 9 and 10, John Clabeaux; Chapter 46 Ignatius Ephesians 19.1 – 3, Harry O. Maier; Chapter 47 Ode of Solomon 5, James H. Charlesworth; Chapter 48 Acts of Paul and Thecla 28–31, Jeffrey A. Trumbower; Chapter 49 Polycarp’s Final Prayer ( Martyrdom of Polycarp 14), Frederick W. Weidmann; Chapter 50 Prayer of the Apostle Paul from the Nag Hammadi Library, Deirdre Good; Chapter 51 Hymn of the Holy Clement to Christ the Saviour, Annewies van den Hoek; Chapter 52 Origen’s Prayer to Jesus the Footwasher, Angela Russell Christman; Chapter 53 Shepherd Prayer – Acts of Peter 10, Robert Stoops; Chapter 54 The Ph?s Hilaron, R. Garland Young;