On Friday 17 December 2004 04:19, Stephen Goranson wrote:
> Another journalistic report on Qumran, "A crack in the theory,"
>
> http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?
> pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1103170788474
>
> or if that URL does not work, try
> http://www.jpost.com and go to "feat
The misinforming and/or misleading in Yizhar Hirschfeld's new book, Qumran
in Context: Reassessing the Archaeological Evidence (2004) begins already with
the dust cover photographs. We see two wooden combs and a string of beads set
over a photo of Qumran.
But these two wooden combs are not fr
I guess some will welcome the article. One paragraph on page 3:
"'It was the most important thing ever found at Qumran: the bottom of the pool
has some three tons of high-quality clay,' Peleg told the Post. 'We started to
understand the site--there were no Essenes.'"
On the other hand, some amo
This was my basic problem. Simply at the surface level it sounds like
pretty big methodological jump from "this pool has a white clay a few layers
down" to "therefore Essene's didn't use the Qumran settlement." There
certainly other ways to handle data like that. But perhaps there's more.
Bu
Russel Gmirkin_# 11/17/2004 g-megillot
list [excerpt]:
As I have elsewhere discussed ("Historical
Allusions in the War Scroll," DSD 5 [1998] 172-214), the War Scroll (1QM)
was the official war manual of the Maccabean army [cp. note 4 below}, the
last additions datable to early summer, 163 BC
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> And some of us may venture to suggest that the Qumran 900 or so ms remains
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> And some of us may venture to suggest that the Qumran 900 or so ms remains
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Dave,
I recently read the proposal that Dead Sea bitumen was used as the fuel for the Qumran pottery kiln. The fumes would be fairly noxious, and so for the privileged class residents of Jericho it would be advantageous if pottery made with this local fuel was made outside Jericho itself (i.e. so
On Saturday 18 December 2004 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dave,
>
> I recently read the proposal that Dead Sea bitumen was used as the fuel for
> the Qumran pottery kiln. The fumes would be fairly noxious, and so for the
> privileged class residents of Jericho it would be advantageous if pott
