To quote Niels Peter Lemche, "enough is enough when it is enough" (http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1997b/msg0043.html ). After this post I am unsubscribing from g-megillot. Some final clarifications on certain allegations raised by Goranson. 1. Stephen Goranson quotes a statement from K. Atkinson concerning "rudimentary knowledge of the archaeological literature" reflected in a discussion in an appendix in my 4QpNah book. Goranson fails to disclose that that was published in JBL by mistake. In the version which Atkinson intended to be published in JBL, and which was published in JBL in winter 2003, this statement of Atkinson is not there. That is, Goranson quoted a statement that the author retracted, without disclosing this. See the Atkinson review at Journal of Biblical Literature 122 (2003): 755-61 which is online at (requires SBL membership) http://www.sbl-site.org/Publications/Publications_Journals_JBL.aspx or (no restrictions) http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=2904 . 2. Goranson has cited "Prof. Jull" with reference to his (Goranson's) criticisms of the radiocarbon dating interpretation in the online paper and previous work. Goranson does not give links, which is what I will do here so that this may be put to rest. Timothy Jull was the lead scientist at Tucson on the second series of Dead Sea text radiocarbon datings done at Tucson in 1994 and is today the editor of _Radiocarbon_ journal. Goranson's references derive from three posts of Jull on the old Orion list, in 1999. Below are the links. Those interested can study these and see what Jull said in conversation with me firsthand, as distinguished from what Goranson has claimed. For those reading these links, I urge first reading my brief but to-the-point section on radiocarbon dating in the online paper under discussion (www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Doudna_Scroll_Deposits_1.htm ), taking particular note of the concluding sentence in that section, and then compare it to the discussions of Jull in these links, and see if there is a legitimate reading of actual, as opposed to Goranson-asserted, differences in interpretation. Jull, Aug. 19, 1999 http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1999b/msg00187.html Jull, Aug. 30, 1999 http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1999b/msg00268.html Jull, Oct. 17, 1999 http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/archives/1999b/msg00428.html 3. On "single generation hypothesis" see a paragraph in my RBL review of Charlesworth's _The Pesharim and Qumran History_, at http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=3056 . Farewell, Greg Doudna
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