The self as symbolic space : constructing identity and community at Qumran /
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| Author / Creator: | Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950- |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004. |
| Description: | x, 376 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies on the texts of the desert of Judah, 0169-9962 ; v. 52 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5332701 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Communities of discourse
- 2. Torah, knowledge, and symbolic power : strategies of discourse in Second Temple Judaism
- 3. Knowing as doing : the social symbolics of knowledge in the Two spirits treatise of the Serek ha-Yahad
- 4. How to make a sectarian : formation of language, self, and community in the Serek ha-Yahad
- 5. What do Hodayot do? : language and the construction of the self in sectarian prayer
- 6. The Hodayot of the leader and the needs of sectarian community.