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Ausgabe:

April/2015

Spalte:

356–357

Kategorie:

Judaistik

Autor/Hrsg.:

Harkins, Angela Kim

Titel/Untertitel:

Reading with an »I« to the Heavens. Looking at the Qumran Hodayot through the Lens of Visionary Traditions.

Verlag:

Berlin u. a.: De Gruyter 2011. X, 324 S. = Ekstasis, 3. Geb. EUR 99,95. ISBN 978-3-11-025180-7.

Rezensent:

Eileen Schuller

Angela Kim Harkins is one of the foremost scholars writing on the Qumran hodayot, the thanksgiving psalms preserved in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since her doctoral dissertation on these texts (2003, un­der James VanderKam at Notre Dame University), she has pub-lished six major articles (2005–2012) and a short commentary on 1QHa (in Outside the Bible: Ancient Jewish Writings Related to Scripture, 2013), in addition to presenting numerous papers at academ-ic conferences. This monograph draws together, consolidates and further develops much of this earlier work, setting it within a more explicit theoretical framework. Her starting point is to pay partic-ular attention to the rhetorical use of the »I« in these poems and to the frequency and intensity of the language of ...


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