The Self as Symbolic Space

The Self as Symbolic Space

Author: Carol Newsom

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 9047405153

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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.


Symbolic Landscapes

Symbolic Landscapes

Author: Gary Backhaus

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-11-09

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1402087039

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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.


Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust

Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust

Author: Professor Eran Neuman

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-07-28

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1472435990

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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.


The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture

Author: Adolfo D. Roitman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 790

ISBN-13: 9004196145

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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.


Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology

Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology

Author: Tyson L. Putthoff

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9004336419

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In Ontological Aspects of Early Jewish Anthropology, Tyson L. Putthoff explores early Jewish beliefs about how the human self reacts ontologically in God’s presence. Combining contemporary theory with sound exegesis, Putthoff demonstrates that early Jews widely considered the self to be intrinsically malleable, such that it mimics the ontological state of the space it inhabits. In divine space, they believed, the self therefore shares in the ontological state of God himself. The book is critical for students and scholars alike. In putting forth a new framework for conceptualising early Jewish anthropology, it challenges scholars to rethink not only what early Jews believed about the self but how we approach the subject in the first place.


Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot

Scriptural Allusions and Exegesis in the Hodayot

Author: Julie A. Hughes

Publisher: Studies on the Texts of the De

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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This study identifies and analyses the scriptural allusions in five selected Thanksgiving Hymns from Qumran. It offers new reader-orientated insights into how these poems and others like them may be interpreted. It includes an extensive methodological chapter.


Symbolic Transformation

Symbolic Transformation

Author: Brady Wagoner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-04

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1135150907

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Brings together scholars in the social sciences from around the world, to address the question of how mind and culture are related through symbols


Dialogic Formations

Dialogic Formations

Author: Marie-Cécile Bertau

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1623960398

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This volume understands itself as an invitation to follow a fundamental shift in perspective, away from the self-contained ‘I’ of Western conventions, and towards a relational self, where development and change are contingent on otherness. In the framework of ‘Dialogical Self Theory’ (Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010; Hermans & Gieser, 2012), it is precisely the forms of interaction and exchange with others and with the world that determine the course of the self’s development. The volume hence addresses dialogical processes in human interaction from a psychological perspective, bringing together previously separate theoretical traditions about the ‘self’ and about ‘dialogue’ within the innovative framework of Dialogical Self Theory. The book is devoted to developmental questions, and so broaches one of the more difficult and challenging topics for models of a pluralist self: the question of how the dynamics of multiplicity emerge and change over time. This question is explored by addressing ontogenetic questions, directed at the emergence of the dialogical self in early infancy, as well as microgenetic questions, addressed to later developmental dynamics in adulthood. Additionally, development and change in a range of culture-specific settings and practices is also examined, including the practices of mothering, of migration and cross-cultural assimilation, and of ‘doing psychotherapy’.


A Desire for Women

A Desire for Women

Author: Suzanne Juhasz

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0813532744

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Annotation An exploration of women's desire for women.