Full title
Knowledge and Deeds in the Two Spirits Treatise
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Research notes
NR\Reader checked\20/04/2015
Reference type
Year
2014
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha
Volume
24
Issue / Series Volume
2
Series Title
JSP
Pages
71-95
Work type
Label
27/04/2015
Abstract
This study explores how knowledge in the Two Spirits Treatise (1QS 3.13–4.26) is presented as a practical knowledge primarily valuable insofar as it generates good deeds. The prominence of deeds makes knowledge itself a relatively minor character in the Treatise, as is particularly evident in the role that deeds play in demonstrating a person's spiritual character. This study will engage with sustained treatments of epistemology in the Treatise by Carol Newsom and Shane Berg on the way to assessing the assumptions of the Treatise from a different angle. Such a perspective reveals a curious, dialogical relationship between theology and anthropology that may be underlying this text.
Primary Texts: Judean Desert Documents