Download or read book Prayer in the Hebrew Bible written by Samuel E. Balentine and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1993-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balentine invites the reader to consider several aspects of prayer in the Hebrew Bible: prayer and the depiction of character, prayer and the characterization of God, prayers for divine justice, the lament tradition, sensible praise, prayer in Old Testament theology, and the motif of the church as "a house of prayer".