Editing Prayer of Manasseh (section)

{{Short description|Penitential prayer attributed to king Manasseh of Judah}}
{{Tanakh OT |deutero}}
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 [[Greek language|Greek]] (while a minority argues for a [[Semitic languages|Semitic]] original) in the second or first century BC.<ref name="Dunn2003">{{cite book|author=James D. G. Dunn|title=Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Vo-11umIZQC&pg=PA859|date=19 November 2003|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-3711-0|page=859}}</ref><ref name="Charlesworth">{{Cite book |editor-last=Charlesworth |editor-first=James H. |date=2010 |title=The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RU77ekrD_vIC&pg=PA625 |location=Peabody, Massachusetts |publisher=Hendrickson Publishers |pages=625–627 |isbn=9781598564907 |access-date=5 January 2021}}</ref> It is recognised that it could also have been written in the first half of the 1st century AD, but in any case before the [[Destruction of the Second Temple]] in 70 AD.<ref name="Charlesworth"/> Another work by the same title, written in [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], was found among the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] (4Q381:17).<ref name="Dunn2003" />