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Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena (Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Book 9) by Reed Carlson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena (Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Book 9) about?
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 s
Who reads Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible: Possession and Other Spirit Phenomena (Ekstasis: Religious Experience from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Book 9)?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Reed Carlson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
- Publisher
- de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783110670035
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- History, Judaism, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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