Ritual, Order and the Construction of an Audience in 1 Enoch 1–36
Drawing on performance theory and ritual theory, this essay argues that the authors of 1 En. 1–36 artfully draw the audience into their imagined world. In chs. 1–5, the text employs a variety of ritualized speech forms from the audience’s habitus in order to tap into and form the members’ dispositio...
| Published in: | Dead Sea discoveries |
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| Subtitles: | Religious Experience and the Dead Sea Scrolls |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Brill
2015
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| In: |
Dead Sea discoveries
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Enoch 1-36
/ Narrative technique
/ Ritual
/ Experience
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| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Performance Theory
ritual theory
experience
Book of the Watchers
construction of audience
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| Summary: | Drawing on performance theory and ritual theory, this essay argues that the authors of 1 En. 1–36 artfully draw the audience into their imagined world. In chs. 1–5, the text employs a variety of ritualized speech forms from the audience’s habitus in order to tap into and form the members’ dispositions. Once the narrative of the Fall of the Watchers commences, the audience can find its place within the narrative through the ritual actions reported in the text. Thereby, the experience of encountering the text also gives shape to the audience’s lived experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5179 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dead Sea discoveries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685179-12341365 |