> 4. Note that one of the critics of this asking the question of evidence for > Period II scroll deposits, Stephen Goranson, holds that the inhabitants > at the end of Qumran Period II were probably different than the > inhabitants at the end of Qumran Period Ib,
"probably"? It would be impossible by political means for "Period 1b participants/descendents" to act parallel to Zealots of Period II without criticizing the latter in one way or the other. But because there is no such criticism at all in the younger texts, it should be clear that the former didn't exist parallel to the latter. In easy words: Period 1b did not end with the harmless earthquake hypothesis of de Vaux, but in one of Herod the Great's bloody raids of the 30s to annihilate the armed political opposition. - Dierk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
