03677nam 2200709 a 450 991082616430332120240516145347.01-283-62752-397866139399753-11-025181-710.1515/9783110251814(CKB)2670000000263188(EBL)893367(OCoLC)811962806(SSID)ssj0000722813(PQKBManifestationID)11401065(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000722813(PQKBWorkID)10698580(PQKB)11155167(MiAaPQ)EBC893367(DE-B1597)123187(OCoLC)815384171(OCoLC)853264345(DE-B1597)9783110251814(Au-PeEL)EBL893367(CaPaEBR)ebr10606554(CaONFJC)MIL393997(EXLCZ)99267000000026318820120514d2012 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrReading with an "I" to the heavens looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the lens of visionary traditions /Angela Kim HarkinsBoston De Gruyter20121 online resource (336 p.)Ekstasis, religious experience from antiquity to the Middle Ages,1865-8792 ;v. 3Description based upon print version of record.3-11-061085-X 3-11-025180-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-301) and indexes.Front matter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. Creating an Embodied Subjectivity for Religious Experience --Chapter 2. The Imaginal Body as an Affective Script for Transformation --Chapter 3. Progressive Spatialization: The Scripted Movement Out From Places of Punishment --Chapter 4. The Thirdspace Terrain of the Hodayot: The Arousal of Fear and the Exegetical Generation of Texts --Chapter 5. Paradise as a Place on the Threshold of the Heavens --Conclusion --Bibliography --Subject Index --Ancient Text Index --Modern Author IndexThis 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 which can then predispose him to have a religious experience. This study examines how references to the body and the strategic arousal of emotions could have functioned within a practice of performative reading to engender a religious experience of ascent. In so doing, this book offers new interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a religious practice for transformation in antiquity.Ekstasis (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;v. 3.RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / GeneralbisacshDead Sea Scrolls.Emotions.Performance Studies.Religious Experience.Ritual.RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / General.296.1/55BC 8920BVBrvkHarkins Angela Kim1973-1651079MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826164303321Reading with an "I" to the heavens4000822UNINA