![]() Greenburg’s observation serves as the impetus for this book. How we talk with each other provides the structures for how we talk with God. ![]() To be sure, Greenburg recognized the literary shaping of speech that occurs when embedded in prose, but nevertheless asserted that direct speech patterns are still present among these prayers.³ In Greenburg’s view, human conversation with God is patterned after typical human to human conversation. ² In these lectures, Greenburg concluded, the biblical narrators all portrayed speech between man and God on the analogy of speech between humans. ![]() In 1983, Moshe Greenburg published a small book presenting a series of lectures on non-psalmic prayer he delivered at the University of California during the 1981–82 academic year. This book is an investigation into the conversational prayers contained in the Hebrew Bible to see if help can be found for conversing with God. ![]() Is talk also at the heart of the Divine human life together? Is the human relationship to the Divine built on talk? Is it truly possible to engage in conversation with God, to participate in give and take, to listen and be listened to? If so, it’s only sensible to understand and be intentional about engaging in these Divine human talks. ![]() Talk is at the heart of human social life. ![]()
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