Sectarianism in Qumran : : A Cross-Cultural Perspective / / Eyal Regev.
Sectarianism in Qumran: A Cross-Cultural Perspective explores the sectarian characteristics of the system of beliefs and laws of the two major Qumran sects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the yahad and the Damascus Covenant, using theories of sectarianism and related topics in sociology, anthropology and t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and Society ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- i-vi
- Preface
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: From Scrolls to Sects
- Part I Sectarian Ideologies in Qumran
- Chapter 1. Sectarian Ideologies and Social Theory: From Separation to Revelation
- Chapter 2. Abominated Temple and Moral Community: Purity, Morality and Sectarian Boundaries
- Chapter 3. Dynamic Holiness and Pre-Sectarianism in the Temple Scroll and MMT
- Chapter 4. Structure, Organization, and the Relationship between the yahad and the Damascus Covenant
- Part II. Related Movements: 1 Enoch, Jubilees and the Essenes
- Chapter 5. 1 Enoch and the Origins of Sectarian Tension
- Chapter 6. Jubilees’ Reform Movement
- Chapter 7. The Essenes: An Outgrowth of the Qumran Movement?
- Part III. A Comparative Study of Sectarianism: The Qumran Sects and the Anabaptists, Mennonites, Hutterites, Amish, Puritans, Quakers and Shakers
- Chapter 8. Comparing Sectarian Rituals and Organizational Patterns
- Chapter 9. Gender and Sectarianism: Between Celibacy and Intimacy
- Chapter 10. Eliminating the Power of Wealth
- Chapter 11. Mysticism and the Holy Spirit
- Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index