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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