Religious Experience and Divinization in the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls: Living in the Liminal (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004748033)

For members of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls movement, participation in the group would have granted an individual special privileges, including present, unmediated access to otherworldly realities. This understanding of the present as a type of liminal space is rooted in the group's constructions of time and space. Drawing on theories of liminality and anthropological research on religious consciousness, this study seeks to demonstrate how sectarian identity and ritual and liturgical practice might have cultivated an experience of present communion with divine beings that was also aspirational and aimed to achieve the human worshiper's permanent incorporation into the heavenly realm.

Author: Rebecca L. Harris
ISBN-10: 9004748032
ISBN-13: 9789004748033
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2025
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.75d