An excellent article, very well researched and very well thought-out. I would
have liked to see a photo or two of the ostracon just for reference, but
that's a minor point.
My bigger concern is with the errors that continued to be propagated in the
DJD volume in question. I wonder how many
The Multi-layered Stratigraphy of Qumran
and the Dead Sea Scrolls
by Stephen J. Pfann
ASoOR Meetings at Napa, California (1997) rev. 2002 [.pdf]
http://www.uhl.ac/Napa/NapaPaper.pdf
[De te fabula narratur!]
_dierk
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Has anybody pictures of art. no.(#) 967-971 of KhQ loc.30 ?
Special interest in table # 970, which is not of type # 967 (# 969).
Thanks in advance.
_Dierk
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Let me add this:
Neither Posidonius nor Posidonius in Strabo Geo.
7.3.3-5 are to be called "Essene sources" - again the dissimilar similitude,
herein the "life-without-woman" of the Temple-founding Dakae that reminds
of the "sine ulla femina" in Pliny nat.hist. 5.73 and the corresponding
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If calculation is a scribal activity then I'd suppose that two of the
three
tables (# 967, # 969) were used for
O- I've missed to answer the calculation
Well, the agricultural branch office is apparently the only workable
alternative to a scroll factory. Now I don't know if you have seen the
movie clip that I've uploaded earlier, for the clip deals in detail with
Zangenberg's Qumran - a possible
Stephen Goranson writes:
Pliny's source on Essenes, M. Agrippa, 15 BCE, wrote when Ein
Gedi (not Jerusalem!) was still ashes (from c. 40 BCE war)--please do not rely
on the Loeb translation that has misled many.
While it is true that Agrippa visited Judea and Jericho in 15 BCE, and wrote a
Dierk wrote:
No Scriptorium (again an anachronistic term), but perhaps a branch
office.
Jack responded:
Scriptorium need not be a monastic term but a word that represents a
place where scribal activity took place.
They may have called it maqom ha sefer but it is still irrelevent to
my point.
