EAN: 9783110251807

READING WITH AN I TO THE HEAVENS - ANGELA K HAR...

This 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.

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