This article reassesses the evidence for determining the form of 4Q369 “Prayer of Enosh” and, in light of this assessment, considers how the composition could function rhetorically. Based on textual and comparative literary evidence, the article proposes that the extant text is structured by a genealogical framework (1 i 9–10) in which historically-oriented prayers are attributed to specific patriarchal figures like Enosh (1 i 1–7) and Enoch or one of his near descendants (1 ii 1–12). These formal aspects of the composition are seen to have important rhetorical consequences: they position the implied audience as a third party between God and the esteemed figures from the remote past and they frame the prayers as accurate forecasts of salvation history. Together these features provide grounds upon which pious readers could have confidence in the inevitability of God’s fidelity until the eschaton.

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上古先祖的祈祷：重新审视 4Q369 以挪士祈祷的形式和功能

本文重新评估了确定 4Q369“以挪士的祈祷”形式的证据，并根据这一评估，考虑了该作品如何在修辞上发挥作用。根据文本和比较文学证据，本文提出现存文本由系谱框架 (1 i 9-10) 构成，其中以历史为导向的祈祷归因于特定的族长人物，如以挪士 (1 i 1-7) 和以诺或他的近亲之一（1 ii 1-12）。作品的这些形式方面被视为具有重要的修辞效果：它们将隐含的听众定位为上帝和远古时期受人尊敬的人物之间的第三方，并且将祈祷作为对救恩历史的准确预测。