A theoretikos (ergo an "Essene" man as well) that follows or aims at the
apolitical vita contemplativa of Aristotle's trailblazing felicitousness
would, perhaps, make a temporary exile into the civilizing wilderness to
find himself, his sitz-im-leben and/or his god. But by no means he'd flee
all his life from the political scene in front of or just in expectation of
a foreign military occupation (the typical Isaiah syndrome), simply because
he offers no working political surface at all.to animate any prosecution.
Be that as it may, what Bergmeier actually makes so abstruse (as least for
English scholars) is the fact that one has to read him in postwar German -
no slightly corrupted English translation such as Stegemann's to be seen on
the market up to now ( I'd say: never ever to be seen)
However, I guess if we have already internalized the dimensions of the cover
of vegetation around the Dead Sea at the turn of the ages. For the
wilderness as described in the DSS is to be located elsewhere, probably in
the 'Arabah or in the Damaskene ("Land of Damascus") north of the Golan
Heights, but not on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, not in the Qumran
area (cf. the Roman ramp construction at Masada and/or the letters of
Babatha).
A word on the historical trustworthiness of ancient "apologists" and
court-commentators: Concerning Nikolaos of Damaskos there is none at all.
Please keep that in mind whenever you cross the border of Hutchesson's
"what-you-see-is-what-you-get" deadline to investigate the killing fields of
the Jewish Civil War 57-37 BC. Of course, those among you who believe in the
allegedly everlasting wrath of Antiochos IV and the "passing" of Onias III
as the ToR in an act of violence don't have this problem - they have others
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