Ritual, Order and the Construction of an Audience in 1 Enoch 1–36

Drawing on performance theory and ritual theory, this essay argues that the authors of 1 En. 1–36 artfully draw the audience into their imagined world. In chs. 1–5, the text employs a variety of ritualized speech forms from the audience’s habitus in order to tap into and form the members’ dispositio...

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Subtitles:Religious Experience and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Main Author: Werline, Rodney Alan 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-341
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Enoch 1-36 / Narrative technique / Ritual / Experience
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B Performance Theory ritual theory experience Book of the Watchers construction of audience
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