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SAMUEL E. BALENTINE, Prayer in the Hebrew Bible: The Drama of Divine-Human Dialogue (OTB; Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993). Pp. xvi + 311. Paper $14.
Balentine has produced a clear and instructive study of prose prayer texts in the Hebrew Bible, passages which many commentators have previously neglected. He first engages us in a close reading of selected texts and then moves us from literary analysis to theological reflection. Although he displays familiarity with the scholarship on the psalms, in his treatment of prose texts he endeavors to avoid the customary practice of simply applying the results of form criticism of the...