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Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena

Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena

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Series: Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle, Book 9

Literary CriticismJudaismBible Studies

ISBN10: 311066934X
ISBN13: 9783110669343
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jan 31 2022
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Spirit possession is more commonly associated with late Second Temple Jewish literature and the New Testament than it is with the Hebrew Bible. In Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible, however, Reed Carlson argues that possession is also depicted in this earlier literature, though rarely according to the typical western paradigm. This new approach utilizes theoretical models developed by cultural anthropologists and ethnographers of contemporary possession-practicing communities in the global south and its diasporas. Carlson demonstrates how possession in the Bible is a corporate and cultivated practice that can function as social commentary and as a means to model the moral self.

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