The self as symbolic space : constructing identity and community at Qumran /
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 develop...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
Series:
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
52.
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah Online, ISBN: 9789004378346.
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Call Number: BM175.Q6 N49 2004eb
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 376 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047405153 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9962 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |