Reading with an I to the Heavens: Looking at the Qumran Hodayot Through the Lens of Visionary Traditions

by Angela Kim Harkins

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311061085X
• ISBN13: 9783110610857
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary