Apocalyptic Subjects: Social Construction of the Self in the Qumran Hodayot

The Qumran community, it is now fairly widely agreed, did not engage in writing the genre of literature known as apocalypses. Yet the community was deeply influenced by the symbolic forms often found in apocalypses, especially those pertaining to dualism. The object of this study is to investi gate...

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Main Author: Newsom, Carol A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2001
In: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2001, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-35
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Summary:The Qumran community, it is now fairly widely agreed, did not engage in writing the genre of literature known as apocalypses. Yet the community was deeply influenced by the symbolic forms often found in apocalypses, especially those pertaining to dualism. The object of this study is to investi gate how certain of these symbolic representations of dualism are employed in the Hodayot (Thanksgiving Scroll) for the purpose of the formation of the self, or, as I find it more useful to say, the formation of subjectivity among members of the Qumran sectarian community.
ISSN:1745-5286
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/095182070101200101