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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Research Topic and Outline | |
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| Methodology: Social-Scientific Approaches to the Study of Qumran Texts and the Qumran Movement | |
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| What Makes an Approach "Social-Scientific"? | |
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| Social-Scientific Questions in Second Temple Jewish Studies | |
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| On Social-Scientific Methodology | |
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| Serakhim and Sectarianism | |
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| Sociology of Sectarianism in Retrospect | |
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| Problematic "Sect" | |
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| Main Developments in the Sociology of Sectarianism During the 1900's | |
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| Weberian Approach: Ideal Types and Virtuoso Personality | |
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| Wilson: Responses to Evil and Sectarian Sub-types | |
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| Stark and Bainbridge: Movements, Institutions and Exchange | |
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| Benefits and Limitations of Typologies | |
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| Shared Sectarian Outlook in Serakhim | |
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| Defining "Sectarian Texts" | |
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| Groups in Tension | |
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| Results of Comparison between the Damascus Document and the Community Rule | |
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| Previous Applications of Stark and Bainbridge | |
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| Comparison to Other Studies on Sectarianism in the Serakhim | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Serakhim and Social Identity | |
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| Social Identity Approach | |
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| Self-Categorization | |
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| Positive Distinctiveness | |
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| Prototypicality | |
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| Application in Ancient Setting | |
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| Benefits of the Approach | |
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| Social Identity and Sectarianism | |
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| Sectarian Identity in the Community of Counsel | |
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| Group Beliefs | |
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| Obedience to Torah and to the Community of Counsel | |
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| Written Rules and Counseling | |
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| Identities on a Continuum | |
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| Pesharim and Sectarian Identity | |
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| Previous Approaches to Pesharim | |
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| Relationship between Serakhim and Pesharim | |
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| Pesher Genre | |
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| Pesharim as Scriptural Interpretation | |
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| Base-Text | |
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| Reading Pesher as a Whole | |
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| The Pesher Psalms | |
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| Identity Construction in the Pesher Psalms | |
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| The Pesher Habakkuk | |
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| Identity Construction in the Pesher Habakkuk | |
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| Teacher from the Identity Construction Perspective | |
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| Prototypical Teacher in the Pesharim | |
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| Pesharim and History | |
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| Changed Perceptions on the Teacher | |
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| Purpose of the Pesharim and the Teacher | |
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| Teacher in Different Theoretical Scenarios | |
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| Conclusion: Identity Construction Process | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Ancient Sources | |
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| Index of Modern Authors | |