Experientia, Volume 2: Linking Text and Experience: 35 (SBL - Early Judaism and Its Literature, 35) - Hardcover

Colleen Shantz; Rodney Werline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004230726 ISBN 13: 9789004230729

Publisher: BRILL, 2012

Synopsis

This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity that began in Experientia, Volume 1. Drawing on insights from disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, the authors focus especially on the relationship between primary texts and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from them. The essays explore a range of religious phenomena, such as worship, experiences within community, ecstasy, mystical ascent, gender, eating, and transformation achieved through reading. Through careful and theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them.

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About the Author

Colleen Shantz is Associate Professor of New Testament at St. Michaels College in the Toronto School of Theology. She is the author of Paul in Ecstasy: The Neurobiology of the Apostles Life and Thought (Cambridge University Press) and the co-editor of Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity (BRILL). She chairs the Religious Experience section of the Society of Biblical Literature. Rodney A. Werline is Associate Professor and the Marie and Leman Barnhill Endowed Chair in Religious Studies at Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina. He is the author of Pray Like This (Continuum) and Penitential Prayer in Second Temple Judaism: The Development of a Religious Institution (Society of Biblical Literature) and the co-editor of numerous volumes including Experientia, Volume 1: Inquiry into Religious Experience in Early Judaism and Christianity (BRILL).

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004230726
• ISBN 13: 9789004230729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296