Reading with an "I" to the Heavens : : Looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the Lens of Visionary Traditions / / Angela Kim Harkins.
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 repo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Creating an Embodied Subjectivity for Religious Experience
- Chapter 2. The Imaginal Body as an Affective Script for Transformation
- Chapter 3. Progressive Spatialization: The Scripted Movement Out From Places of Punishment
- Chapter 4. The Thirdspace Terrain of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Fear and the Exegetical Generation of Texts
- Chapter 5. Paradise as a Place on the Threshold of the Heavens
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Ancient Text Index
- Modern Author Index