Dave, you wrote:
I do note, though, that you appear to be at variance with David
Trobisch with regard to the question of whether the NT codices we
have so far discovered are products of published editions.
I am afraid I do not understand how merely listing general characteristics
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He [Eisenman] goes to great pains to indicate that the Zadokites
PRIOR to Herod are quite different to the Zadokites
AFTER Herod. And I think this could very well be a
valid distinction.
But he failed to find the primary indicator: the complete absence of any
Pinheas allusion - the
Dierk,
Moreh-ha-zedek is very much a sobriquet as Greg points out. The structure of the
phrase parallels the similar (yet contrasting) sobriquet mattiph-ha-kazab found
in 1QpHab and CD. More interestingly, however, the two verbs yarah and nataph
from which the first half of the 'titles'
