| Uniform title | Essays. Selections |
| Series |
Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology, 0926-6097
Contributions to biblical exegesis and theology ; 111. ^A1136660
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Experiencing Presence through Mourning Prayers and Ritual Emotions -- 1. The function of prayers of ritual mourning in the Second Temple period -- 2. The pro-social role of grief in Ezra's penitential prayer -- 3. A phenomenological study of penitential elements and their strategic arousal of emotion in the Qumran Hodayot (1QH cols. 1[?]-8) -- 4. The emotional re-experiencing of the Hortatory narratives found in the admonition of the Damascus document -- 5. Emotion and law in the Book of Baruch -- 6. The imaginative experiencing of Psalm of Solomon 8 -- 7. Ritualizing Jesus' grief at Gethsemane -- 8. Sticky emotions from Second Temple Prayers: A study of Paul's grief in 2 Corinthians -- Part II: Religious Experience of Spaces and the Exegetical Generation of New Texts -- 9. Experiencing the solidity of spaces in the Qumran Hodayot -- 10. The performative reading of the Hodayot: The arousal of emotions and the exegetical generation of texts -- 11. The garden space in Odes of Solomon 11 and the reinvigoration of memories about paradise -- 12. Religious experience through the lens of critical spatiality: A look at embodiment language in prayers and hymns. |
| Abstract |
"This volume brings together twelve essays by Angela Kim Harkins that use integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to contribute new insights to the understanding of religious experience in ancient Judaism and Christianity. Building on the text-centered work that characterizes much of Second Temple studies, Harkins seeks to reintegrate ancient Jewish and Christian texts with various aspects of the flesh-and-blood experience of religion by using performance-based methods, ritual studies, integrative cognitive science approaches, and emotion studies. This volume aims to overcome the common mind-body dualism that dominates the study of ancient texts by offering ways to imagine the integrative phenomenological experience of these texts for ancient peoples." --Provided by publisher |
| General note | 12 previously published essays. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-303) and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | 9789042947078 e-book version |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9789042947061 |
| ISBN | 9042947063 (paperback) |
