Dear list members, We have just vague trends towards preferences of N-S orientation for males and E-W orientation for females on the exc. barrows of Kh. Qumran. Much later Bedouins were doubtlessly Muslims; hard to believe that they would have ever shared grave-fellowship with unbelievers.Contemporary Bedouins were local Jewish nomads, shepherds in general, perhaps Rechabite potters in special. Due to the fact that hitherto excavated specimens exclusively belong to the Arabia Petraea type (Roehrer-Ertl 2000), the chances for immigrants from e.g. Jerusalem or the coastal region, thus for an open religious community at Kh. Qumran, are equal to zero in the moment.
_Dierk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Goranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <g-megillot@McMaster.ca> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 6:13 PM Subject: [Megillot] Fwd: [ANE] Qumran > I forward the following from ane-list, in case it is of interest here. That > lsit maintains an open archive at > http://listhost.uchicago.edu/pipermail/ane > I thank the list owners of g-megillot and ane for maintaining open archives. > > best, > Stephen Goranson > > > ----- Forwarded message from Stephen Goranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:05:56 -0500 > From: Stephen Goranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ANE] Qumran > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thank you, Joe Zias, for helping to clarify the data from the Qumran cemetery. > Your Dead Sea Discoveries 7 (2000) 220-253 article is a fine contribution to > learning on this subject. > > Now, if I understand corectly--and perhaps I do not; we await publication--in > addition to your research, we now have, or soon will have, more data from the > Y. Magen, Y. Peleg, Y. Nagar et al. Qumran excavation. You wrote that they > excavated some Qumran cemetery burials. And that in each case--lets say, for > conversation's sake, nine, then reinterred--the physical anthropologist Y. > Nagar determined that each North-South burial was a single, ancient, adult, > male. And that each East-West burial was a later, Bedouin, burial. *If* that > turns out to be the case, then it would provide strong evidence favoring your > DSD article thesis, in my opinion. > > Someone impertinently wrote that the bones did not have the name "Essene" on > them. > > Yet the name "Essenes" does appear in some of the Qumran manuscripts, found in > the Dead Sea "northwest shore" area, just as C. D. Ginsburg in 1870 read Pliny. > Of course, "Essenes" does not appear in the scrolls in English, nor in any of > the many Greek spellings, including Ossaioi, but in the Hebrew original > self-designation, recognized by several scholars before 1948 (bibliography on > request) and by several scholars after 1948: 'osey hatorah, observers of torah, > a self-designation that some other sects, unlike some Stoic philosophers, > naturally refused to use for them. > > best, > Stephen Goranson > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > g-Megillot mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot > > _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
