Browsing Faculty Publications by Subject "emotional experience"

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

Mermelstein, Ari (Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)

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 ...