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The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran

The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran

Newsom, Carol a.

Paperback

Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

Religion General JudaismInterior Design

ISBN10: 1589832981
ISBN13: 9781589832985
Publisher: Soc Of Biblical Literature
Published: Nov 9 2007
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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