Prayer from Tobit to Qumran: Inaugural Conference of the ISDCL at Salzburg, Austria, 5-9 July 2003.(Book review)

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PRAYER FROM TOBIT TO QUMRAN: INAUGURAL CONFERENCE OF THE ISDCL AT SALZBURG, AUSTRIA, 5-9 JULY 2003. Edited by Renate Egger-Wenzel and Jeremy Corley. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Yearbook 2004. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2004. Pp. xiv + 554. 98 [euro].

These essays on biblical prayer appear in the first yearbook of the recently created International Society for the Study of Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature. This interreligious society based in Salzburg was founded to promote research into deuterocanonical and cognate literature. The society has held its ...

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