Reading with an "I" to the Heavens : Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions.
Harkins, Angela Kim.
Reading with an "I" to the Heavens : Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012. - 1 online resource (336 pages) - Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages ; v. 3 . - Ekstasis (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-301) and index.
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.
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 subjectivity of a visionary which can then predispose him to have a religious experience. The author offers new interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a religious practice for transformation in antiquity.
9783110251814 3110251817
Thanksgiving Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls
Thanksgiving Psalms
Hodayot Qumrantexte
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Lektüre
Ritual
Religiöse Erfahrung
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Judaism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM488.T5 H37 2012
296.155
Reading with an "I" to the Heavens : Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2012. - 1 online resource (336 pages) - Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages ; v. 3 . - Ekstasis (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-301) and index.
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.
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 subjectivity of a visionary which can then predispose him to have a religious experience. The author offers new interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a religious practice for transformation in antiquity.
9783110251814 3110251817
Thanksgiving Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Dead Sea scrolls.
Dead Sea scrolls
Thanksgiving Psalms
Hodayot Qumrantexte
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Lektüre
Ritual
Religiöse Erfahrung
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
Judaism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM488.T5 H37 2012
296.155