Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS

2007-03-07 Thread dwashbur
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

Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS

2007-03-07 Thread Dierk van den Berg
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