Reading with an "I" to the Heavens

Looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the Lens of Visionary Traditions

Angela Kim Harkins (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

X, 324 Seiten

2018
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-061085-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (= Thanksgiving Hymns) in light of ancient visionary traditions, new developments in neuropsychology, and post-structuralist understandings of the embodied subject. 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. This study examines how references to the body and the strategic arousal of emotions could have functioned within a practice of performative reading to engender a religious experience of ascent. In so doing, this book 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.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.06.2018
Reihe/Serie	Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	652 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Dead Sea Scrolls • Emotion • Emotions • performance studies • Qumran • Religiöse Erfahrung • religious experience • Ritual • Totes Meer Schriftrolle
ISBN-10	3-11-061085-X / 311061085X
ISBN-13	978-3-11-061085-7 / 9783110610857
Zustand	Neuware