@article{767008,
      recid = {767008},
      author = {Hasselbalch, Trine,},
      title = {The redactional meaning of the thanksgiving hymns :  linguistic and rhetorical perspectives on a heterogeneous  collection of prayers from Qumran /},
      pages = {1 online resource (327 pages) :},
      abstract = {"This book challenges the consensus that the Hodayot  consist of leader hymns and community hymns respectively,  and it breaks with the habit of interpreting each hymn as  expressing basically either leadership issues or ordinary  community member issues. Instead it argues that all of the  compositions in 1QHodayota were perceived by their owners  to express the sentiments of a worshipping community at  large, and that the members of this community saw  themselves as holding a mediating position in the agency of  God. This way, the Hodayot express a theology according to  which God acts in the world through the members of this  particular community, and the collection of 1QHodayota  seems to reflect an emergent socio-religious pattern which  is different from that of the Book of Psalms. The book  engages in an array of methods, most prominently from the  field of sociolinguistics, in an attempt to find more  sophisticated ways to approach the relationship between the  Dead Sea scrolls, in this case the Hodayot, and their  socio-historical contexts"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/767008},
}