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The self as symbolic space : constructing identity and community at Qumran / by Carol A. Newsom.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive 2000-2006 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950-
- Series:
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 52.
- Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; v. 52
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Qumran community.
- Hebrew language--Discourse analysis.
- Hebrew language.
- Hebrew language--Religious aspects--Judaism.
- Thanksgiving Psalms.
- Manual of discipline.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (390 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-364) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-91500-5
- 9786610915002
- 90-474-0515-3
- 1-4294-1482-0
- OCLC:
- 191935938
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047405153 DOI
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