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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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Collection:Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah ; v. 52.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Communities of discourse
  • Torah, knowledge, and symbolic power: strategies of discourse in Second Temple Judaism
  • Knowing as doing: the social symbolics of knowledge in the two spirits treatise of the Serek ha-Yahad
  • How to make a sectarian: formation of language, self and community in the Serek ha-Yahad
  • What do Hodayot do? Language and the construction of the self in sectarian prayer
  • The Hodayot of the leader and the needs of sectarian community
  • Conclusions.