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Reading with an "I" to the Heavens : Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions.
This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns). The thesis of this book is that the ritualized reading of reports describing visionary experiences written in the first person "I" had the potential to create within the ancient reader the subjec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2012.
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| Colección: | Ekstasis (Walter de Gruyter & Co.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Creating an Embodied Subjectivity for Religious Experience
- Chapter 2. The Imaginal Body as an Affective Script for Transformation
- Chapter 3. Progressive Spatialization: The Scripted Movement Out From Places of Punishment
- Chapter 4. The Thirdspace Terrain of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Fear and the Exegetical Generation of Texts
- Chapter 5. Paradise as a Place on the Threshold of the Heavens
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Ancient Text Index
- Modern Author Index.