Dr. Zangenberg,
I stand corrected; I forgot about Khirbet Qazone. However, I am not being
anachronistic; just very cautious about coming to conclusions on insufficient
or skewed data. The mass graves of antiquity and later have little to do
with "a democratic society granting their fallen an
S. Pfann has written concerning the volume of water available at Ein
Feshkha, and suggested donkeys and large jars were used for transporting
the water to places like Qumran. (He also mentioned aquaducts, but I assume
he means a system of these at the site of Ein Feshkha to manage the water
In a recent posting in which Dr. Altman (cited below) ends with the
following sentence I would like to bring attention to one fact
that I've cited again and again, that unless you are in the specific
field, one can make numerous mistakes.
"Neither archaeology nor anthropology meets the
what does it take to show a text was written by an essene, what does it
take to show it wasn't? we need a document signed Joe the essene,
otherwise we will never know.
h
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Dear Colleagues
I'll keep this brief as I went on a bit with another posting in which I
dealt with the battlefield theory put forth by Alumna, Golb et al.
Jurgen asked me if I can be called Joe which I always refer to myself as
the name Zias coupled with Joe in front of it invariably ends up
Dear Colleagues,
one last word (from my side) about the beads. We seem to agree on the issue
that the presence of beads as such does not necessarily make the "Bedouin"
graves really Bedouin. Now we are going into statistics: how many beads per
grave etc. I don't think this will lead us
