Knowledge and Deeds in the Two Spirits Treatise

Updated by: 
Neta Rozenblit
Research notes: 
NR\Reader checked\20/04/2015
Reference type: 
Journal Article
Author(s): 
Dixon, Thomas
year: 
2014
Full title: 

Knowledge and Deeds in the Two Spirits Treatise

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: 
Essay/Monograph
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: 
Scroll / Document: 
1QS
Section type: 
Column
Passage: 
3-4
URL: 
http://jsp.sagepub.com/content/24/2/71.abstract
Label: 
27/04/2015
Record number: 
100 246