Authors: Carol A. Newsom
ISBN-13: 9781589832985, ISBN-10: 1589832981
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Date Published: November 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Looking especially at the two central documents, the Serek ha-Yadad and the Hodayot, Newsom (Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Emory U.) investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. The reconstruction of the identity of individual members, she says, was key to the formation of the community, so self became an important symbolic space for the development of the ideology of the sect. She concludes that people 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 to constitute a sectarian society. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1 | Communities of discourse | 1 |
2 | Torah, knowledge, and symbolic power : strategies of discourse in Second Temple Judaism | 23 |
3 | Knowing as doing : the social symbolics of knowledge in the Two spirits treatise of the Serek ha-Yahad | 77 |
4 | How to make a sectarian : formation of language, self, and community in the Serek ha-Yahad | 91 |
5 | What do Hodayot do? : language and the construction of the self in sectarian prayer | 191 |
6 | The Hodayot of the leader and the needs of sectarian community | 287 |