The Simon anecdote belongs to the same mantic circle like the Judas and the
Menahem anecdotes - the genre of interpretation of dreams in the
paradoxographic style of Artemidoros; cp Bergmeier_Essenerberichte, p.
16ff., Kampen (NL) 1993.However, I guess what Posidonius' textual abuse of
the Getes in Strabo has do with Essene language. Obviously nothing. Do we
perhaps continue with the interpretation of dreams ? Okay , it is legitime
to dream, but not in a seminar, I believe.
Dierk
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Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (NL)
www.kun.nl
The son of Telamon, sweeping in through the mass
of the fighters
struck him at close quarters through the brazen cheeks
of his helmet...
and the brain ran from the wound along the spear by
the eye-hole... (Iliad 17.193-98)
> Various writers have suggested that Simon the Essene might be identical
with
> Simeon in Luke 2. Examples:
> Kaufman Kohler, "Essenes," in Jewish Encyclopedia (1905?), "...Simon the
> Essene (Ant. xvii.13.3; B.J. ii.7.4), who is possibly identical with Simon
in
> Luke ii.25...."
> Pinchas Lapide, Immanuel [Tantur] 2 (1973) 28-24.
> J.E.H. Tomson, Books Which Influenced Our Lord And His Apostles: Being A
> Critical Review Of Apocalyptic Jewish Literature (Edinburgh: T.& T. Clark,
> 1891).
> S. Goranson in P. Flint and J. VanderKam ed., The DSS After Fifty Years: A
> Comprehensive Assessment vol 2, "Simon the Essene (J.W. 2.113; Ant.
17.245-48)
> could possibly be identical with Simeon in Luke 2:25-35."
>
> The name Shimon is common, but there are similarities. (And the pesher
> described in Josephus recalls Qumran.) A possibility perhaps to consider,
> should new insights turn up.
>
> best,
> Stephen Goranson
> "Posidonius of Apamaea might have been the first to use 'Essene'."
> UPenn class online minutes prepared by Annie Wu of the 1998 DSS class
taught by
> Prof. Robert Kraft
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