The message below is forwarded from ane-list. For description of the second book, Stephen Pfann's English presentation of R. de Vaux's dig notes, click on the URL below.
Stephen Goranson > Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:38:31 -0600 > From: Jack Sasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ANE] BOOKS: Qumran, via scientific analysis > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >From Jean-Michel de Tarragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> comes this notice: > ============================= > > HUMBERT Jean-Baptiste & Jan GUNNEWEG (Eds.), > Khirbet Qumran et Ain Feshkha, II. Etudes d'anthropologie, de > physique et > de chimie.[Studies of Anthropology, Physics and Chemistry.] > > With: Marta Balla, Mireille Belis, Alain Chambon, Christa Clamer, > Katharina Galor, Jan Gunneweg, Tom Higham, Jean-Baptiste Humbert, > Nol > Lacoudre, Andre Lemaire, Jacek Michniewicz, Martin Muller, Jonathan > Norton, Emmanuel Pantos, Kaare L. Rasmussen, Susan Guise Sheridan, > Aryeh > Shimron, Joan Taylor, Johannes van der Plicht, et al. (NTOA.SA 3). 24 > x > 32,2 cm ; xxv-482 pp. illustr. (color/ B&W). Fribourg (Suisse), > Academic > Press / editions Saint-Paul & Goettingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, > 2003. > > Hardcover Euro 153,00 (ISBN 3-7278-1452-7 / 3-525-53973-8). > > > > Notice by Jerry Murphy OConnor: > > Volume I (= Photos of Qumran dig) provided a report of the > archaeological > excavation and a list of the finds at Khirbet Qumran. (See > http://ebaf.op.org/nouveau/en/2003q1b.htm>.) > > This volume (II) seeks to analyze and explain these finds by > applying the > latest scientific technologies. > > Specialists from diverse interdisciplinary fields pool their > knowledge to > establish the provenance of Qumran's pottery and to establish the > range of > contact beyond Qumran. A classification of the textile remains and > an > examination of their craftsmanship inform about the communitarian > and/or > religious background of the people at Qumran. The decipherment of > Qumran's > graffiti, the majority of which is local in origin, is essential for > comparing their writing to that found in the parchment and papyrus > scrolls. Carbon dating of wood from a coffin and a date kernel > establishes > the period in which the alleged Essenes may have lived and died > U--the > latter once a source of contradiction. The burial beads do not fit in > the > Essene context. The study of the metal objects provides background > for > research on Roman metallurgy in this part of the world. Finally, the > analysis of the mortar used for the water cisterns opens a new > dimension > on the study of the domestic activities at Qumran. > > It is hoped, furthermore, that after new hypotheses based on the > archaeology of Qumran are formulated, the exegesis of the Dead Sea > scrolls > will profit from these scientific results, thus shedding new light on > the > interpretation of the texts. _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
