Carol A Newsom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1423429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol A Newsom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol A |
| FAMILY NAME | Newsom |
| SIGNATURE | NEWSOM C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9924-5475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls
A Farewell to the Hodayot of the Community
Since the 1960s, most scholars have distinguished between two types of compositions in the Hodayot, those that represent the persona of the Teacher of Righteousness and those that represent the spiritual experience of the Community in general. This theory, however, was developed before scholars had access to a reliable reconstruction of 1 QH a or to the fragmentary manuscripts of the Hodayot from Cave 4. While that evidence largely confirms the d…
Genesis 1–3 and the Formation of Subjectivity in the Hodayot and the Two Spirits Teaching
Although the lived experience of subjectivity for persons in antiquity cannot be known directly, one can study certain texts as tools for the formation of subjects. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls two compositions are particularly instructive, the Hodayot found in 1 QH a 2–9, 18–28 (the Hodayot of the Maskil, also known as Hodayot of the Community) and the Two Spirits Teaching (1 QS 3:13–4:26). Each develops an understanding of subjectivity based on s…
In memoriam Gary N. Knoppers
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
This collection of essays by Carol A. Newsom explores how ancient texts rhetorically engage existing traditions and how they themselves become objects of hermeneutical transformation in contexts ranging from sectarian Judaism to the politics of post-World War I and II Germany and America to modern film criticism and feminist re-reading.
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
This collection of essays by Carol A. Newsom explores the indispensable role that rhetoric and hermeneutics play in the production and reception of biblical and Second Temple literature. Some of the essays are methodological and programmatic, while others provide extended case studies. Because rhetoric is, as Kenneth Burke put it, »a strategy for encompassing a situation,« the analysis of rhetoric illumines the ways in which texts engage particul…
Moral »Recipes« in Deuteronomy and Ezekiel
The Hebrew Bible preserves evidence of a variety of overlapping but distinct moral systems. This essay examines the usefulness and limitations of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) for providing categories by means of which these different moral systems may be compared. Building upon the categories established by MFT, this essay compares the moral systems of Deuteronomy and Ezekiel. In addition, it goes beyond the concerns of MFT to examine how moral…
The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses, 200 BCE-200 CE
The Economics of Sin
Sin appears to be enjoying a recent surge of popularity, and not just among the religious. From Oxford University Press's popular series on the seven deadly sins to Alan Jacobs's Original Sin: A Cultural History , 2 these books address a contemporary ambivalence about the traditional religious language of sin, even as they make a case for the continuing relevance of historical conceptions of sin. To this body of literature, Gary Anderson's Sin: A…
Sectarianism in Early Judaism
The Self as Symbolic Space
This volume investigates critical practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. Key to the formation of the community was the reconstruction of the identity of individual members. In this way the “self” became an important symbolic space for the development of the ideology of the sect. Persons who came to experience themselves in light of the narratives and symbolic structures embedded in the community practic…
Bakhtin, the Bible, and Dialogic Truth
Job the Silent
Gabriel (Angel)
[Heb gabrîʾēl]. Gabriel (whose name means “God is my warrior”) is one of two angels named in the Hebrew Bible (Dan 8:16; 9:21), the other being Michael (Dan 10:13, 21; 12:1). Along with Michael, Gabriel regularly figures as one of the 4 archangels (see 1 En. 9:1; 40:9; 54:6; 71:8; Apoc. Mos. 40:2; 1
"Newsom, "Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
Apocalyptic and the Discourse of the Qumran Community
The 'Psalms of Joshua' from Qumran Cave 4
Il s'agit d'un apocryphe du livre de Josue, jusqu'ici inconnu, contenu dans plusieurs fragments de la grotte quatre de Qumran : 4Q175 (ou 4Q Testimonia, selon l'intitule de John Allegro, son editeur en 1956), 4Q378 et 4Q379
Merkabah Exegesis in the Qumran Sabbath Shirot
Merkabah Exegesis in the Qumran Sabbath Shirot
The 'Psalms of Joshua' from Qumran Cave 4
Il s'agit d'un apocryphe du livre de Josue, jusqu'ici inconnu, contenu dans plusieurs fragments de la grotte quatre de Qumran : 4Q175 (ou 4Q Testimonia, selon l'intitule de John Allegro, son editeur en 1956), 4Q378 et 4Q379
Apocalyptic and the Discourse of the Qumran Community
Gabriel (Angel)
[Heb gabrîʾēl]. Gabriel (whose name means “God is my warrior”) is one of two angels named in the Hebrew Bible (Dan 8:16; 9:21), the other being Michael (Dan 10:13, 21; 12:1). Along with Michael, Gabriel regularly figures as one of the 4 archangels (see 1 En. 9:1; 40:9; 54:6; 71:8; Apoc. Mos. 40:2; 1
"Newsom, "Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
Job the Silent
Bakhtin, the Bible, and Dialogic Truth
The Self as Symbolic Space
This volume investigates critical practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society. Key to the formation of the community was the reconstruction of the identity of individual members. In this way the “self” became an important symbolic space for the development of the ideology of the sect. Persons who came to experience themselves in light of the narratives and symbolic structures embedded in the community practic…
The Economics of Sin
Sin appears to be enjoying a recent surge of popularity, and not just among the religious. From Oxford University Press's popular series on the seven deadly sins to Alan Jacobs's Original Sin: A Cultural History , 2 these books address a contemporary ambivalence about the traditional religious language of sin, even as they make a case for the continuing relevance of historical conceptions of sin. To this body of literature, Gary Anderson's Sin: A…
Sectarianism in Early Judaism
The Heavenly Book Motif in Judeo-Christian Apocalypses, 200 BCE-200 CE
Moral »Recipes« in Deuteronomy and Ezekiel
The Hebrew Bible preserves evidence of a variety of overlapping but distinct moral systems. This essay examines the usefulness and limitations of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) for providing categories by means of which these different moral systems may be compared. Building upon the categories established by MFT, this essay compares the moral systems of Deuteronomy and Ezekiel. In addition, it goes beyond the concerns of MFT to examine how moral…
In memoriam Gary N. Knoppers
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
This collection of essays by Carol A. Newsom explores how ancient texts rhetorically engage existing traditions and how they themselves become objects of hermeneutical transformation in contexts ranging from sectarian Judaism to the politics of post-World War I and II Germany and America to modern film criticism and feminist re-reading.
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics
This collection of essays by Carol A. Newsom explores the indispensable role that rhetoric and hermeneutics play in the production and reception of biblical and Second Temple literature. Some of the essays are methodological and programmatic, while others provide extended case studies. Because rhetoric is, as Kenneth Burke put it, »a strategy for encompassing a situation,« the analysis of rhetoric illumines the ways in which texts engage particul…
A Farewell to the Hodayot of the Community
Since the 1960s, most scholars have distinguished between two types of compositions in the Hodayot, those that represent the persona of the Teacher of Righteousness and those that represent the spiritual experience of the Community in general. This theory, however, was developed before scholars had access to a reliable reconstruction of 1 QH a or to the fragmentary manuscripts of the Hodayot from Cave 4. While that evidence largely confirms the d…
Genesis 1–3 and the Formation of Subjectivity in the Hodayot and the Two Spirits Teaching
Although the lived experience of subjectivity for persons in antiquity cannot be known directly, one can study certain texts as tools for the formation of subjects. Among the Dead Sea Scrolls two compositions are particularly instructive, the Hodayot found in 1 QH a 2–9, 18–28 (the Hodayot of the Maskil, also known as Hodayot of the Community) and the Two Spirits Teaching (1 QS 3:13–4:26). Each develops an understanding of subjectivity based on s…
Rhetoric and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Art (15 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (12 works) · Literature (12 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Biblical studies (6 works) · Hebrew Bible (6 works) · Sociology (6 works)