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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Main Author: Newsom, Carol A. 1950-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: 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.

Subjects:

Thanksgiving Psalms.

Manual of discipline.

Qumran community.

Hebrew language > Discourse analysis.