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Reading with an "I" to the Heavens: Looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the Lens of Visionary Traditions: 3
Author(s): Harkins (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 22 Jan. 2018
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110251809
- ISBN-13: 9783110251807
Book Description
This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (Thanksgiving Hymns). 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. The author offers new interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a religious practice for transformation in antiquity.
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About the Author
Angela Kim Harkins, Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK.
