The paper is a summary including results of a dissertation that investigates the role of the Spirit in Luke 4:18-19 and in select DSS by reconsidering the argument by some pneumatologists that the role of the Spirit in Luke differs from other NT writings by upholding what is claimed to be a Jewish notion of the Spirit that is generally disinclined to view the Spirit as operant within Jesus’ powerful actions or in soteriological aspects. Inspired by developments in research of conceptualizations of spirit by DSS scholars, this study analyzes four DSS, finding possible evidence that humanity is dependent upon God’s gifts of spirit to follow after him in each one that makes this claim less likely. The method of analysis is adapted from grammatico-historical criticism and text-linguistics (or discourse analysis) and results in a reading of the Treatise in which the two spirits within humanity are taught to be generated by humanity’s choices to follow the opposing counsels of the two angelic spirits (and God and other angels) as the source of all human behavior, attributing a soteriological function to God and his angels. The opposition between God’s help and the hindrance of evil spiritual beings is found in 1QS, some of 1QHa, and 11QMelchizedek, but the evidence of angelic aid is unclear outside the Treatise. Instead, God becomes the focus of humanity’s help in 1QS, 1QHa, and 4Q521, in which God’s spirit might be conceptualized as his empowering presence. The analysis of Luke reveals his use of literary devices to give central importance to the significance of the role of the Spirit in Luke 4:18-19 which is word-crafted with the broader context to signify that God’s Spirit is the powerful, pervasive, abiding presence of God who empowers Jesus’ words and deeds and enacts the healings from infirmities and evil spiritual beings and who might also be understood to open the minds of Jesus’ followers to understand Jesus’ message. This study contributes to the consideration that an expansive pneumatological ideology might be conceived of in these texts that could be tested in other 2TP Jewish and NT writings.