ISBN:
9789047405153
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 376 pages)
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah v. 52
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950- Self as symbolic space
Keywords:
Thanksgiving Psalms
;
Manual of discipline
;
Manual of discipline
;
Thanksgiving Psalms
;
Qumran community
;
Hebrew language Discourse analysis
;
Hebrew language Religious aspects
;
Judaism
;
Hebrew language ; Discourse analysis
;
Hebrew language ; Religious aspects ; Judaism
;
Qumran community
Abstract:
Preliminary Material /Carol A. Newsom -- Communities of Discourse /Carol A. Newsom -- Torah, Knowledge, and Symbolic Power: Strategies of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism /Carol A. Newsom -- Knowing as Doing: The Social Symbolics of Knowledge in the Two Spirits Treatise of the Serek ha-Yahad /Carol A. Newsom -- How to Make a Sectarian: Formation of Language, Self, and Community in the Serek ha-Yahad /Carol A. Newsom -- What Do Hodayot Do? Language and the Construction of the Self in Sectarian Prayer /Carol A. Newsom -- The Hodayot of the Leader and the Needs of Sectarian Community /Carol A. Newsom -- Conclusions /Carol A. Newsom -- Bibliography /Carol A. Newsom -- Subject Index /Carol A. Newsom -- Modern Author Index /Carol A. Newsom -- Passage Index /Carol A. Newsom -- Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah /Carol A. Newsom.
Abstract:
This volume investigates critical practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. Key to the formation of the community was the reconstruction of the identity of individual members. In this way the “self” became an important symbolic space for the development of the ideology of the sect. Persons who came to experience themselves in light of the narratives and symbolic structures embedded in the community practices would have developed the dispositions of affinity and estrangement necessary for the constitution of a sectarian society. Drawing on various theories of discourse and practice in rhetoric, philosophy, and anthropology, the book examines the construction of the self in two central documents: the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodayot
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364) and indexes
DOI:
10.1163/9789047405153
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