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Reading with an I to the Heavens

Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions

  • Hardback
  • 324 pages
  • Publisher: De Gruyter
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

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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.
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  • Title

    Reading with an I to the Heavens

  • Author

    Angela Kim Harkins

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    De Gruyter

  • Published

    June 2012

  • Weight

    645g

  • Page Count

    324

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9783110251807

  • ISBN-10

    3110251809

  • Eden Code

    4039301

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