The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)

The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah) image
ISBN-10:

900413803X

ISBN-13:

9789004138032

Author(s): Newsom, Carol
Released: Jul 15, 2004
Publisher: BRILL
Format: Hardcover, 382 pages
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Description:

This volume investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society by reconstructing the identity of its members. Drawing on discourse and practice theory, the book analyzes the function of the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodoyot in identity formation.

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