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Christians around the world recite the "Lord's Prayer" daily, but
what exactly are they praying for - and what relationship does it
have with Jesus' own context? Jeffrey B. Gibson reviews scholarship
that derives the so-called Lord's Prayer from Jewish synagogal
prayers and refutes it. The genre of the prayer, he shows, is
petitionary, and understanding its intent requires understanding
Jesus' purpose in calling disciples as witnesses against "this
generation." Jesus did not mean to teach a unique understanding of
God; the prayer had its roots in first-century Jewish movements of
protest. In context, Gibson shows (pace Schweitzer, Lohmeyer,
Davies, Allison, and a host of other scholars) that the prayer had
little to do with "calling down" into the present realities of "the
age to come." Rather, it was meant to protect disciples from the
temptations of their age and, thus, to strengthen their
countercultural testimony. Gibson's conclusions offer new insights
into the historical Jesus and the movement he sought to establish.
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