https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2022-005
The article discusses the issue of emotional adjustment in the Community, using the achievements of contemporary psychology in the process of interpreting selected Qumran texts to provide a deep insight into the psyche and spirituality of the Qumran community and into the psychosocial mechanisms that functioned within it, ensuring its cohesion, persistence and identity. Firstly, the study depicts the origins of the negative tensions that emerged from the spirituality of the Community, describing them and their consequences (habituation, mental exhaustion and their derivatives) to the Qumranites and their whole community. Taking as an assumption the conviction that the Community’s congregations were the solution intended to prevent those consequences, the article describes their distinctive features and interprets them, paying special attention to their function of providing spiritual rest to the members of the Qumran community.
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