The Self As Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran, Volume 52This 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. |
Contents
Discourse in Second Temple Judaism | 23 |
The Social Symbolics of Knowledge | 77 |
and Community in the Serek haYahad | 91 |
What Do Hodayot Do? Language and the Construction | 191 |
The Hodayot of the Leader and the Needs of Sectarian | 287 |
Conclusions | 347 |
365 | |
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The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran Carol Newsom Limited preview - 2018 |
The Self as Symbolic Space: Construction Identity and Community at Qumran Carol A. Newsom No preview available - 2007 |
Common terms and phrases
1QHa according apocalyptic articulated authority Ben Sira biblical calendrical character composition concerning construction context covenant cultural Damascus Document Daniel Dead Sea Scrolls described Deuteronomy disciplinary disciplinary institution discipline discourse distinctive divine eschatological Essenes figured world formation Foucault García Martínez God's halakah Hasmonean hodayah Hodayot human identity ideology individual instruction interpretation Israel Jewish Jubilees language leader leadership lines literature Manual of Discipline Maskil Maskil's hymn meaning metaphor Metso moral munity narrative particular passage person Pharisees phrase practices praise prayer priestly priests Psalms Puech Qumran community reference relation relationship represented rhetorical ritual role scribal scribe scripture Second Temple Judaism sect sectarian sectarian community sense Serek ha-Yahad significance Sira social speak speaker specific speech Spirits Treatise Strophe structure suggests symbolic Teacher of Righteousness teaching textual tion torah traditional truth understanding vacat wisdom words Yahad כול כיא לאין לכול עולם