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Hasselbalch asserts that current theories about the social background of Thanksgiving Hymns are unable to explain its heterogeneous character. Instead the author suggests a reading strategy that leaves presumptions about the underlying social contexts aside to instead consider the collection's hybridity as a clue to understanding the collection as a whole. Hasselbalch applies Systemic Functional Linguistics to four Hodayot compositions which show signs of hybridity. Analysis reveals that the speaker in some of the so-called leader hymns as well as in compositions not normally designated leader hymns appears to have the role of a mediator in the agency of God-a feature that distinguishes the hodayot from biblical psalms. This characteristic can be seen as a common denominator that unifies the collection.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Meaning and Context in the Thanksgiving Hymns
• Subtitle: Linguistic and Rhetorical Perspectives on a Collection of Prayers from Qumran
• Author: Trine Hasselbalch
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 326
• EAN: 9781628370560
• ISBN: 9781628370560
• ID: 03196385
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
• Weight: 649 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2015

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