The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, Volume LII.

Author:   C Newsom
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers
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Pages:   390
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
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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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Author:   C Newsom
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN:  

9786610915002


ISBN 10:   6610915008
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   01 January 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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