[Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS
Forwarded for Stephen Goranson: Hi, Here's an online article, perhaps one to note for g-megillot and/or orion in the news. It's from December 2006; the title at the newsletter link, Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the same as that of a National Geographic show next Sunday, coincidentally or not. Much of it is semi-old news, but it would be nice to have a list of which texts are on goat and calf skin, to compare or contrast with those on gazelle and ibex skin. http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2006/1108scrolls.shtml best, Stephen Goranson http://www.duke.edu/~goranson ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS
Agreed those things are possible. But it's equally possible that they (whoever they were; I agree with you about the whole Essene thing) just bought jars wherever they could and put scrolls they had already made into them. That's my gripe: the article goes immediately from jars from different sites to the scrolls had to have come from the same places. It's a flying leap, nothing more, but the average reader isn't going to pick that up. On 7 Mar 2007 at 11:53, Jim West wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I frequently wonder why otherwise competent scholars come up with statements like this one: --- Although chemical analysis indicated that several cave jars were made from clay found near Qumran, it also showed material from five other locations, suggesting that the scrolls might have originated in many different sites. --- How? All it suggests is that the JARS might have originated in many different sites. It says nothing at all about the scrolls therein. Maybe they are presuming that the jars were made at the very location that the scrolls were written and then immediately shoved inside them. (the scrolls into the jars that is). It really isn't outside the realm of possibility is it that if scrolls are being produced jars are also being produced at the same location to store them in? Mind you, I don't think there was an Essene encampment at Qumran. I think it was as Hirschfeld saw it (but alas, that's a minority viewpoint!) best jim -- Jim West, ThD http://drjewest.googlepages.com/ -- Biblical Studies Resources http://drjimwest.wordpress.com -- Weblog ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot Dave Washburn Bash the ground until bananas come out. ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS
It really isn't outside the realm of possibility is it that if scrolls are being produced jars are also being produced at the same location to store them in? No Jim - for that would be utmost unproductive, not only in the narrower party-political sense. Let's put it this way, 'the exile' in the 'Wilderness of Nations' is simply not to be located in e.g. Juergen Zangenberg's 'paradisiac mercantile vicinity' (2003) of the Dead Sea in the 2nd and 1st c. BC - only that is of certain importance here, I believe. _Dierk _‹(•¿•)›_ RU Nijmegen, NL --- kullu nafsin dsa 'iqatu l-mawt (surah 3.185) *all living is pervaded by the taste of death* [Momentum of Shiite al-Mahdi Messianism] ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
[Megillot] clay and scrolls
Dave Washburn wrote: I frequently wonder why otherwise competent scholars come up with statements like this one: --- Although chemical analysis indicated that several cave jars were made from clay found near Qumran, it also showed material from five other locations, suggesting that the scrolls might have originated in many different sites. --- How? All it suggests is that the JARS might have originated in many different sites. It says nothing at all about the scrolls therein. ** I don't have any particular axe to grind about this, but wouldn't it be fair to say that it not only suggests the jars *might* come from different places, but almost conclusively demonstrates this (unless unprocessed clay was carted around)? About the *scrolls* it obviously only suggests they *might* come from different places, but that was what the offending quote said in the first place. I guess some slightly louder reservations than just the word might could be a good idea if the quote is meant for journalistic consumption, buit there's nothing *wrong* being said there, is there? kol tuv Soren ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
