Sociological Approaches to Qumran Sectarianism
in The Oxford Handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls
October 2010; p ublished online January 2011 .
Article. Subjects: Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology of Religion; Judaism and Jewish Studies; Christianity. 14745 words.
Scholarly reflection on the people behind the Qumran documents has been coloured by the use of the term ‘sect’ from very early on, ever since the first announcement of the discovery of the...
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