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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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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 |
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emotion
ritual
purity
Dead Sea Scrolls
Qumran
Community Rule
Hodayot
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