The self as symbolic space : constructing identity and community at Qumran /

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.
Hebrew language > Religious aspects > Judaism.

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Call Number: BM175.Q6 N49 2004eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Communities of Discourse /
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  • Torah, Knowledge, and Symbolic Power: Strategies of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism /
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  • Knowing as Doing: The Social Symbolics of Knowledge in the Two Spirits Treatise of the Serek ha-Yahad /
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  • How to Make a Sectarian: Formation of Language, Self, and Community in the Serek ha-Yahad /
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  • What Do Hodayot Do? Language and the Construction of the Self in Sectarian Prayer /
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  • The Hodayot of the Leader and the Needs of Sectarian Community /
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  • Conclusions /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Subject Index /
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  • Modern Author Index /
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  • Passage Index /
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  • Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah /
  • Carol A. Newsom.