This forum is intended to be a place where scholars may discuss the scrolls without fear ad hominem attacks.
Stephen Goranson made himself unwelcome on Megillot by his repeated personal attacks, despite moderator warnings. He is no longer a member of Megillot. If you feel a need to respond to his latest messages, please do so offlist. Ken Penner, McMaster/DSS Dead Sea Scrolls scholars' list owner, http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot > If I read your reply correctly, you imply that some of my > sentences were > poorly written. If that is what you meant, I am certainly > willing to concede > that some of my sentences could have been better written. > But, I suggest > another factor was at work. My post assumed familiarity with > the literature of > Qumran archaeology, paleography, and radiocarbon. I would > have thought that, > for your article that makes radical redating claims for both > Masada texts and > for Qumran texts, you would have closely aquainted yourself with this > literature. I suggest that making radical redating assertions > obligates one to > take that literature seriously. > > Perhaps I can clarify another point that I may not have > written as clearly and > explicity as I might have done. I am saying that there is a direct > relationship between denial of Essenes at Qumran and some highly > counterfactual Qumran history reconstructions. Examples of > this type, I > suggest, include some writings of N. Golb, G. Doudna, A.D. Crown, Y. > Hirschfeld, L. Cansfield, "I. Hutchesson" (aka John J."Jay" > Hayes [not to be > confused with a real scholar, John H. Hayes], Ann L. Kramer etc.). _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
