If the pen is authentic, ancient, and found in Cave 11, with a known ms, and
its cover, in a jar, with its cover (hence the preservation?) I find it
interesting that it is said to be made from a date palm leaf. I suggest a date
palm leaf pen would more likely have been used at Qumran than Jerusalem. At
Qumran date seeds, date wood, date leaves, and a date press have been reported;
as well as an extraordinary number of inkwells. Cf. Feshkha ("sect"?); with an
inkwell too (made at Qumran, acc. J. Gunneweg). Cf. Pliny, Dio. Cf. C.D.
Ginsberg 19th century: Essenes on northwest shore of Dead Sea.
In my view, some mss were produced at Qumran by Essenes; others brought there,
most likely by Essenes. Essenes did not compose them all. Some Qumran texts are
plainly Essene; some include the source of their name, 'osey hatorah, as a self
designation, as various scholars, e.g. James Tabor, now recognize. And several
scholars knew that before 1948.
A scholar must have examined the 11QT frags, to assign them to Yadin's scribe A
and to columns 2 & 3. That the cloth adheres to the ms is significant for
dating. C14 tests should (but don't always) publish the location of the sample
(s)--i.e. which col, which sheet.
(I do not think the Akron Genesis ms is from 4Q252.)
best,
Stephen Goranson
Quoting Wieland Willker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> What is your view on these things?
> Taking the extensive damage into account there were probably more than
> 1000 scrolls in these caves originally. Up to now more than 500
> different scribes have been identified. Do you think these scrolls were
> all from the Essene community?
>
> And regarding the Genesis fragment:
> It should be not too difficult to check if it fits to 4Q252. Does not
> 4Q252 contain Gen 22:10?
>
> Best wishes
> Wieland
> <><
> ------------------------
> Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie/
forwarded from tc-list
Here is the Feb. 2004 edition Schoyen Catalog relevant link again:
http://www.nb.no/baser/schoyen/5/5.9/index.html#12.4
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