Reading with an "I" to the Heavens (eBook)

Looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the Lens of Visionary Traditions

Angela Kim Harkins (Autor)

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2012
334 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-025181-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Angela Kim Harkins, Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK.

Autor

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Angela Kim Harkins, Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction 11
I. The Proposal 14
II. Basic Orientation to the Qumran Hodayot 18
III. Traditional Scholarly Ways of Reading and Interpreting the Hodayot 27
Chapter 1 Creating an Embodied Subjectivity for Religious Experience 35
I. Religious Experience as Bodily Experience 39
II. Affective Experience as Bodily Experience 47
III. The Theoretical Post-Structural Framework of Performance Theory and Ritual Studies 56
1. Generative aspects of Ritual Performance 66
2. Embodied Subjectivity 70
3. The Radical Indeterminacy of Ritual Experiences 75
Conclusion 77
Chapter 2 The Imaginal Body as an Affective Script for Transformation 79
I. Embodiment Language and the Strong “I” 84
II. Emotions in Performance Studies 101
III. Performative Emotions in Religious Experience 108
Conclusion 120
Chapter 3 Progressive Spatialization: The Scripted Movement Out From Places of Punishment 124
I. Critical Spatial Theory: Firstspace, Secondspace, and Thirdspace 124
II. The Secondspace Terrain of the Hodayot 134
A. Spatial Orientation to the Collection TH+CH II 137
B. Places of Punishment and Entrapment: The Religious Geography of Terror in the TH 140
1. Entrapment and Enemy Attacks: 1QH X, 22–32 148
2. 1QH XI: Specific Allusions to Enochic Places of Punishment 151
3. Entrapment (1QH XII, 6-XIII, 6) 157
4. The Lion’s Den (1QH XIII, 7–21) 158
Conclusion 162
Chapter 4 The Thirdspace Terrain of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Fear and the Exegetical Generation of Texts 163
I. The Anthropologizing “I” and the Process of Actualization 166
II. The Role of the Emotions in the Generation of New Visionary Compositions 182
A. Neuropsychological Processes 184
B. Emotion and Memory in Performance Theory and Neuropsychology 192
C. Summary of the Neuropsychology of Emotion and Performance 198
III. Moving from Secondspace to Thirdspace Experiences: Performative Reading and the Exegetical Generation of 1QH XIII, 22-XV, 8 200
Conclusion 213
Chapter 5 Paradise as a Place on the Threshold of the Heavens 216
I. The Garden as Heterotopia 218
II. The Garden Paradise in the Hodayot 225
A. The Location of Paradise as a Place Above 228
B. A Glimpse of the Garden Paradise in 1QH XIII, 22-XV,8 230
C. The Well-Watered Garden Paradise in 1QH XVI, 5-XVII, 36 234
III. Moving On: The Spatial Progression in the Hodayot Scroll 254
IV. Entry into the Heavens 257
Conclusion 275
Conclusion 277
Bibliography 284
Subject Index 313
Ancient Text Index 316
Modern Author Index 328

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
• Reihe/Serie: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Schlagworte: Dead Sea Scrolls • Emotion • Emotions • performance studies • Qumran • Religiöse Erfahrung • religious experience • Ritual • Totes Meer Schriftrolle
• ISBN-10: 3-11-025181-7 / 3110251817
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-025181-4 / 9783110251814