Prayer of Manasseh

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Name after the ÖVBE. Pseudepigrapha the Septuagint are in italics.

The Prayer of Manasseh, Manasseh's prayer or prayer of Manasseh (scientific abbreviation Orman, from Latin Oratio Manasse ) is a late Scriptures of the Old Testament, named after the Judean king Manasseh, of whose reign the 2nd Book of Kings (2 Kings 21, 1-18, the second book of Chronicles ( 2 Chr 33.1-20 LUT) EU) ​​and report.

This prayer is a prayer of repentance that has arisen between the 2nd century BC and the 1st century AD and was first attested in the third century. It is recorded in Greek and Syriac, the original language is uncertain. In fifteen verses of the text Manasseh holds after the capture by the Assyrians look back on his life, pleads guilty and asks God for forgiveness of sins. According to Old Testament sources, he had not complied with the Torah. Accordingly, he also promoted the worship of the gods Baal and Asherah.

In the Septuagint text-critical edition of Alfred Rahlfs ( 1st edition 1935, revised in 2008 ), it is cited as Chapter 12 of the Odes. Also in the appendix to the Latin Vulgate ( 1592) and in the Apocrypha of the King James Bible it appears. In the Ethiopian Bible, the text in the second book of Chronicles appears. The book was published in Syriac, Slavic, Ethiopic and Armenian translations. The first German translation can be found in Luther A short instruction how to confess in 1519 and probably goes back to Georg Spalatin. However, it is viewed both by almost all Jews, Catholics and Protestants as apocryphal by some Orthodox Christians as deuterokanonisches book. Luther added behind the Apocrypha one at the very end of the Old Testament. In the Orthodox liturgy, it appears as sung prayer at compline.