Angela Kim Harkins Livres

Focusing on The Shepherd of Hermas, this study explores one of the earliest Christian texts, originating between 70-150 CE in a significant urban center. It delves into the work's historical context, themes, and theological implications, shedding light on early Christian beliefs and practices. The analysis highlights the text's relevance in understanding the development of Christian doctrine and its influence on subsequent writings.

Exploring the Qumran Hodayot, this book delves into how ancient visionary traditions, neuropsychology, and post-structuralism intersect. It argues that ritualized readings of first-person visionary accounts could foster a visionary subjectivity in ancient readers, enhancing their potential for religious experiences. By analyzing bodily references and emotional engagement in performative reading practices, it provides fresh interdisciplinary perspectives on meditative rituals as transformative religious practices in antiquity.

This book examines the collection of prayers known as the Qumran Hodayot (= Thanksgiving Hymns) in light of ancient visionary traditions, new developments in neuropsychology, and post-structuralist understandings of the embodied subject. The thesis of this book is that the ritualized reading of reports describing visionary experiences written in the first person I had the potential to create within the ancient reader the subjectivity of a visionary which can then predispose him to have a religious experience. This study examines how references to the body and the strategic arousal of emotions could have functioned within a practice of performative reading to engender a religious experience of ascent. In so doing, this book offers new interdisciplinary insights into meditative ritual reading as a religious practice for transformation in antiquity.

This book uses cognitive literary theory, specifically the approach known as enactive reading, to investigate why a work that was exceedingly popular among readers in antiquity has failed to receive the same reception by modern scholars.

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