Prayer of Manasseh

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The Prayer of Manasseh is a short, penitential prayer attributed to king Manasseh of Judah.

The majority of scholars believe that the Prayer of Manasseh was written in

Destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.[2] Another work by the same title, written in Hebrew, was found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (4Q381:17).[1]

Origin

Manasseh is recorded in the Bible as one of the most

second Book of Kings, records that Manasseh was taken captive by the Assyrians (2 Chronicles 33:11–13). While a prisoner, Manasseh prayed for mercy, and upon being freed and restored to the throne turned from his idolatrous ways (2 Chronicles 33:15–17). A reference to a penitential prayer, but not the prayer itself, is made in 2 Chronicles 33:19
, which says that the prayer is written in "the annals of the kings of Israel".

Canonicity

The prayer's canonicity is disputed. It appears in ancient

included the prayer in an appendix to the Vulgate.

The prayer is included in some editions of the Greek Septuagint. For example, the 5th century Codex Alexandrinus includes the prayer among fourteen Odes appearing just after the Psalms.[6] It is accepted as a deuterocanonical book by Orthodox Christians.[9]

Liturgical use

The prayer is chanted during the

Daily Office of the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer used by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and as Canticle 52 in Common Worship: Daily Prayer of the Church of England
.

References

  1. ^ .
  2. ^ . Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  3. ^ (Vol. 2), p. 625.
  4. Leningrad
    ; it is Syr. MS, New Series 19, and is abbreviated 10tI.
  5. ^ Ariel Gutman and Wido van Peursen. The Two Syriac Versions of the Prayer of Manasseh. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press.
  6. ^ a b NET Bible
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  9. ^ Gregory Dipipo (2017). "Actual Apocrypha in the Liturgy" New Liturgical Movement (blog).

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