“The greatest prayer.” What Chuck is reading

Here is a space where I will periodically leave notes about books and interesting articles I am reading, usually with a link to the source.

What Chuck is Reading June, 2023

1) The Greatest Prayer: Rediscovering the Revolutionary Message of the Lord's Prayer
By Crossan, John Dominic

I have two disadvantages when trying to pray the Lord’s Prayer.  First, I have recited it (which is not to say having prayed it) thousands of times in my life.  It is so familiar that I no longer feel any of its force or strangeness.  Second, even though it feels familiar, it is very strange.  But I do not know how to grasp its strangeness.  Every line leaves me wondering what has been said.  It is full of so many ambiguous and frankly weird things (Father? debts? daily bread? leading into temptation? etc. etc.).  

Crossan is one of the leading New Testament scholars of our time, and I have benefited from his knowledge in the past.  So when a casual Amazon search turned this up, I immediately ordered it.  It is …