Hearing 4q225: A Case Study in Reconstructing the Religious Imagination of the Qumran Community

Kugler, Robert A.

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“…A growing body of scholarship has demonstrated that communities are one of the most important and meaningful contexts for social interaction and socio-political legitimization (Anderson 1991;Isbell 2000;Kolb 1997;Kugler 2003;McAnany & Bartlett 2000;Read 1997). But what is a 'community'?…”

Section: A Sense Of Community: the Constitution Of Identitymentioning

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“…Thus, the activities and institutions that characterize the loci of community determine to some extent the nature of community. We can speak of 'market or crafting communities' (McAnany & Bartlett 2000), 'labour communities' (Kolb 1997), 'agricultural communities' (Kolb & Snead 1997) 'residential communities' (Read 1997), or 'religious communities' (Kugler 2003) among an infinite variety of others. It is given that such forms of community may simultaneously exist as either hierarchically or heterarchically nested subdivisions in any given spatio-temporal social unit; spaces are multiplex.…”

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Civic and Household Community Relationships at Teotihuacan, Mexico: a Space Syntax Approach

Morton

Peuramaki‐Brown

Dawson

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It is held that the study of complex societies can effectively focus on the human interactions that define communities. Given the operational primacy of architectural survey in archaeological investigations, with some prominent exceptions, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to how communities of varying scales can actually be identified using these data sets. This article weds a modified version of Yaeger and Canuto's (2000) ‘interactional approach’ to community identity with a materialist (empirical) body of method-theory known as space syntax in a discussion of community structure and systems of authority represented in the architectural structures and spaces of epicentral Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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Section: A Sense Of Community: the Constitution Of Identitymentioning

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Civic and Household Community Relationships at Teotihuacan, Mexico: a Space Syntax Approach

Morton

Peuramaki‐Brown

Dawson

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“…9-12) and genre (p. 16; and see further, Najman 2012). A thematic issue of Dead Sea Discoveries on the topic of ‘Authorizing Texts, Interpretations, and Laws at Qumran’ (Najman 2003b) engages with Najman’s work through a series of diverse studies of Scripture (Ulrich 2003); poetic compositions (Kim 2003); the Community Rule tradition (Hempel 2003); religious imagination (Kugler 2003); halakhah (Shemesh and Werman 2003); legal midrash (Yadin 2003); and hermeneutics (Fraade 2003). While they vary in their degree of engagement with critical theory as such, the articles share a particular attention to the dynamics of power in the context of textual formation.…”

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Is Ancient Jewish Studies (Still) Postmodern (Yet)?

Grossman

2015

Currents in Biblical Research

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Postmodern theory, with its concerns about textual meaning, identity formation, and dynamics of power, has had an impact on the study of ancient Judaism in a variety of ways over the last several decades. Theories of reader-response and intertextuality have particularly shaped recent work in biblical studies, while these and other philosophical concerns have contributed to postmodern understandings of midrash. The impact of postmodern theory on the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls is more subtle but nonetheless provides an interesting model for the use of theory in the study of ancient Judaism. Attention to the work of a particular scholar (D. Boyarin) or the possibilities for a particular theoretical approach (postcolonial theory) provides further evidence for postmodern treatments of ancient Jewish texts and history. Although the heyday of critical theory is now long past, the field of ancient Jewish studies has been shaped by theory-driven concerns about discourse, power, and the world.

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History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls

Williams¹

2019

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Hearing 4q225: A Case Study in Reconstructing the Religious Imagination of the Qumran Community

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Civic and Household Community Relationships at Teotihuacan, Mexico: a Space Syntax Approach

Civic and Household Community Relationships at Teotihuacan, Mexico: a Space Syntax Approach

Is Ancient Jewish Studies (Still) Postmodern (Yet)?

History and Memory in the Dead Sea Scrolls

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