Emotional Regimes, Ritual Practice, and the Shaping of Sectarian Identity
: The experience of ablutions in the Dead Sea Scrolls

In this article, I explore the role that the purification rites attested in some of the sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls played in identity construction. Ritual ablutions communicated “canonical” messages to initiates about some of the group’s foundational beliefs, including the worthlessness of humanity,...

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Main Author: Mermelstein, Ari 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Biblical interpretation
Year: 2016, Volume: 24, Issue: 4/5, Pages: 492-513
RelBib Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
HD Early Judaism
Further subjects:B emotion
 ritual
 purity
 Dead Sea Scrolls
 Qumran
 Community Rule
 Hodayot

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