By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The Lord’s Prayer has been called, by the authors of the Dictionary of the Bible, a ‘simple act of worship’. But there are a number of curious aspects of the Lord’s Prayer which are worth analysing closely, because they are less straightforward. There is also the not-inconsiderable issue that there are, in fact, two Lord’s Prayers – or, we should say, at least two.