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Author : Carol Ann Newsom
Release : 2004
Genre : Dead Sea scrolls
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Book Rating : 032/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Self as Symbolic Space by : Carol Ann Newsom
Download or read book The Self as Symbolic Space written by Carol Ann Newsom. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Newsom
Release : 2018-11-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 153/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Self as Symbolic Space by : Carol Newsom
Download or read book The Self as Symbolic Space written by Carol Newsom. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society by reconstructing the identity of its members. Drawing on discourse and practice theory, the book analyzes the function of the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodoyot in identity formation.
Author : Gary Backhaus
Release : 2008-11-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Symbolic Landscapes by : Gary Backhaus
Download or read book Symbolic Landscapes written by Gary Backhaus. This book was released on 2008-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.
Author : Professor Eran Neuman
Release : 2014-07-28
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 990/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust by : Professor Eran Neuman
Download or read book Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust written by Professor Eran Neuman. This book was released on 2014-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical case in a contemporary context and integrates the historical into actuality. By examining several cases, the book defines the issues faced by various architects who dealt with this topic and discusses their separate and distinctive approaches. In each case, it analyses the ways in which the cultural and political contexts of commemoration led to a different interpretation of the condition. Focusing on the Ghetto Fighters’ House, the world’s first Holocaust museum; Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem; the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington; and the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, the book discusses how the representation of history by architecture creates a dialectic process in which architecture mediates the past to the present, while at the same time creating a present saturated with historical contexts. It shows how, together, they are incorporated into one another and create a new reality: past and present intertwined.
Author : Adolfo D. Roitman
Release : 2011-03-21
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture by : Adolfo D. Roitman
Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture written by Adolfo D. Roitman. This book was released on 2011-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in July 2008 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. As indicated by its title “The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture,” the aim of the conference was to move beyond the strict confines of conventional scholarship and to explore new avenues of research, including the examination of the place of the findings from the Judean Desert in contemporary culture. The book is divided into five main sections: (1) the Identity and History of the Community; (2) the Qumran “Library”: Origins, Use, and Nature (2a. Biblical Texts; 2b. Biblical Interpretation; 2c. Sectarian and Non-Sectarian Literature; 2d. Sectarian vis-à-vis Rabbinic Halakha); (3) Christianity in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls; (4) Gender at Qumran; and (5) New Perspectives (5a. Methodological Approaches; 5b. Educational Approaches).
