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Item Details
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THE SELF AS SYMBOLIC SPACE
CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY AT QUMRAN |
| By: |
Carol A. Newsom |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£141.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
900413803X |
| ISBN 13: |
9789004138032 |
| Publisher: |
BRILL |
| Pub. date: |
15 July, 2004 |
| Series: |
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 52 |
| Pages: |
382 |
| Description: |
This volume investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society by reconstructing the identity of its members. Drawing on discourse and practice theory, the book analyzes the function of the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodoyot in identity formation. |
| Synopsis: |
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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Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
Brill |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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