Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls : Living in the Liminal /

Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls : Living in the Liminal /

For members of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls movement, participation in the group would have granted an individual special privileges, including present, unmediated access to otherworldly realities. This understanding of the present as a type of liminal space is rooted in the group's construct...

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Main Author: Harris, Rebecca L. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism.

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Biblical Studies.
Ancient Judaism.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Translations
  • Key to Symbols
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Accessing Religious Experience in Antiquity
  • 1.2 Religious Experience and the Dead Sea Scrolls: a Brief Survey of Scholarship
  • 1.3 Tanya Luhrmann and the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • 1.4 The Horizons and Limits of Liminality
  • 1.5 (Re)Constructing a Sectarian Paracosm: Terms and Considerations
  • 1.6 An Outline of the Study
  • Part 1: Constructing a Liminal Present
  • Introduction to Part 1
  • 2 The Last Days
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Rethinking the Two-Age Scheme
  • 2.3 Locating the Last Days Period
  • 2.4 The Nature of the Last Days
  • 2.5 Beyond the Limit
  • 2.6 Conclusion
  • 3 Sacred Time
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Synchronizing Sacred Times
  • 3.3 Sacralizing the Mundane
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • Part 2: Social, Geographical, and Transcendent Spaces
  • Introduction to Part 2
  • 4 Becoming Eternal (Social Space)
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Formation and Development of a Sectarian Paracosm
  • 4.3 Training Devotion
  • 4.4 Those Who Know
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • 5 The Pure Life (Physical and Geographical Space)
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Embodied Space
  • 5.3 Geographical Space: Khirbet Qumran as a Sacred Site
  • 5.4 Conceptual Geographical Space: the Wilderness and Damascus
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • 6 Limitless (Transcendent Space)
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 On Earth as It Is in Heaven
  • 6.3 Living as a Sacrifice
  • 6.4 Destined to an Eternal Lot
  • 6.5 Conclusion
  • Part 3: Transformative Liturgies: Liturgies That Do Things
  • Introduction to Part 3
  • 7 Divinization: a Participatory Approach to 1QH a
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Performing the Hodayot as a Liturgical Progression
  • 7.3 The Spirit You Placed in Me
  • 7.4 Liminality
  • 7.5 Divinization
  • 7.6 Conclusion
  • 8 Joining the Angels
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Converging Communions: Lifting Limits Liturgically
  • 8.3 Waging War Liturgically
  • 8.4 Joining the Angels: Liturgical Progression in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • 9 Conclusions
  • 9.1 Summary
  • 9.2 Limitations and Outlook
  • Bibliography
  • Index.