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Emotional Regimes, Ritual Practice, and the Shaping of Sectarian Identity: The Experience of Ablutions in the Dead Sea Scrolls
(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 ...
The traditional roots of priestly messianism at Qumran.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2010)
The Humbling of the Arrogant and the “Wild Man” and “Tree Stump” Traditions in the Book of Giants and Daniel 4 .
(Mohr Siebeck, 2016)
There is no question that the Qumran Book of Giants, with its focus on the
violence perpetrated by the progeny of the watchers and the elevated role of
the patriarch Enoch in the revelation of divine judgment, belongs ...