Psychological Essentialism in Serek ha-Yaḥad and the Two Spirits Treatise

This paper investigates the psychological mechanisms that underpin Qumran sectarian dualism and its construction of in-group/out-group boundaries. Specifically, evidence from experimental and developmental psychology and cognitive anthropology is used to argue that Serek ha-Yaḥad and the Two Spirits...

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Main Author: Maiden, Brett E. 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Dead Sea discoveries
Year: 2018, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-56
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sektenregel (Qumran Scrolls) / 1QS III,13-IV,26 / Group identity / Dualism / Essentialism
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
HD Early Judaism
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Qumran Dead Sea Scrolls Serek ha-Yaḥad Two Spirits Treatise sectarianism essentialism
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