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...
| Publicado en: | Dead Sea Discoveries Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 39 - 57 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2018
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