Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS

[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 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:

 
 
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  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
 
 
 
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Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS

[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 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.



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