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From: "David Stacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Megillot] Hasmoneans, control and not
I read carefully and do not agree.
I didn't expect you to. Who lived at Qumran is by and large conjecture.
That throughout the Hasmonean period only seasonal occupation was possible
is an archaeologically certainty.
David
Quoting David Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If you read carefully you will see that, far from denying that Essenes
lived at Qumran, I suggest that they may well have done but under the
auspices of the Royal estate in Jericho. As an industrial suburb Qumran
had too great a strategic and utilitarian value for it to be a 'closed
theological society'.
David
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Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:16 PM
Subject: [Megillot] Hasmoneans, control and not
Quoting David Stacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[....]
(Hasmoneans would not have tolerated any sort of 'independent' Qumran
not under its control).
[....]
Statements such as the above are not rare. But, I suggest, such
statements may
be more asserted than demonstrated. Hasmoneans did not prevent, among
other
things, sectarianism. Various realities existed without Hasmoneans
necessarily
wishing for such realities. Saying that Jannaeus could have attacked
them there
is not equivalent to saying that he did so. And his wife and successor:
is there
good reason to assert that during her rule "independent" communities
("of any
sort") cannot have existed? And some of this calculus depends, doesn't
it, on
the date the Hellenistic period settlement began? That a community of
Essenes
lived on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, I suggest, was not among
the
greatest of the Hasmoneans' (nor Herod's) worries.
Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/jannaeus.pdf
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