The Lord's Prayer Questioned; Majority of Panel Believes It Written After Jesus' Death

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 22, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Jesus probably did not compose the Lord's Prayer or teach it to his disciples, although certain phrases in it might have been used by him, a continuing national seminar of biblical scholars agreed last week.

A majority of the two dozen scholars believe that the Lord's Prayer was composed by the early church years after Jesus was crucified.

The so-called Jesus Seminar, which met in Atlanta last weekend, also decided that the phrases "hallowed be Thy name," "Thy kingdom come," "give us this day our daily bread" and "forgive us our debts" reflect fragments from prayers by Jesus.

The Lord's ...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Like Jesus, make prayer a priority; Daily moments with Father help you keep focus.(NATION)(THE CAPITAL PULPIT)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...provide everything we need. Prayer was obviously a priority for Jesus. It was at the top of His...off and you are most you. Prayer helped Jesus to stay focused on His purpose...their own. It was through prayer that Jesus stayed connected to His...
Into God's Presence: Prayer in the New Testament
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly ; ...Howard Marshall, in "Jesus-Example and Teacher of Prayer in the Synoptic Gospels...summarizes the presentation of Jesus as pray-er and teacher of prayer in Matthew, Mark, and...Lincoln, in "God's Name, Jesus' Name, and Prayer in the Fourth Gospel...
The trials of `Jabez'.(Bruce Wilkinson's Prayer of Jabez)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report ; ...takes a similar approach in The Prayer of Jesus (W Publishing). In an interview...Christianity. And Mike Nappa, in The Prayer of Jesus (Barbour Publishing), contends...NO. 1 Will Hank Hanegraaff's Prayer of Jesus --with the same size and a strikingly...
PRAYER SUSTAINS US, OFFERS INSTRUCTIONS FOR DAILY LIVES
Newspaper article from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle ; Even Jesus Christ knew that prayer was a great necessity, because...call upon Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through prayer. In order to have spiritual...Now, don't you think that if Jesus had to pray, that prayer should be foremost in your...
During the Last Supper, Jesus prayed for all of us.(NATION)(THE CAPITAL PULPIT)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...of the Gospel of John. It is a prayer that Jesus prayed after he and the disciples...it dawned on me that [in] this prayer that Jesus was praying was not just for...us. In the first part of the prayer, Jesus lets God know that he, Jesus...
Prayer in the New Testament
Magazine article from: Interpretation ; ...Cullmann examines the treatment of prayer in (1) Jesus and the synoptic Gospels...prayers than they do in the prayers of Jesus. Romans 8:12-27 is the centerpiece...Paul, the Holy Spirit through prayer intercedes for Jesus' disciples and therefore is...
Jesus' Teaching on Prayer
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly ; VILLE AUViNEN, Jesus' Teaching on Prayer (Abo: Abo Akademie Forlag/Abo...matter," hence to understand Jesus' teaching on prayer "in terms of early judaism...be important to ascertain how Jesus' prayers functioned as "subversive speech...
Scholars deny Jesus said Lord's Prayer
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ; ...a consensus that Jesus did not say or teach...followers the Lord's Prayer. The conclusion...swirling around the Jesus Seminar, a group...authentic; pink, Jesus said something like...say it. The Lord's Prayer tally, taken late...findings on the Lord's Prayer should guarantee that. ...
Echoes of wisdoms in the Lord's Prayer(Matt 6:9-13)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society ; ...echoes do not preclude Jesus' redaction of traditional...Jewish expressions of prayer in the Lord's prayer...possibility that Jesus used current Jewish prayers as a model. 1. The...have been used by Jesus in formulating the Lord's Prayer."3 The reason scholars...
SCHOLARS BELIEVE JESUS DIDN'T WRITE LORD'S PRAYER
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) ; ...Christian writings show the prayer is not in the words of Jesus. The participants voted...agree with Taussig that Jesus probably never said the prayer as a prayer and probably...concluded that parts of the prayer may have been said by Jesus and that other parts...

Find more facts and information related to the article "The Lord's Prayer Questioned; Majority of Panel ..."