On Friday 17 December 2004 04:19, Stephen Goranson wrote: > Another journalistic report on Qumran, "A crack in the theory," > > http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? > pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1103170788474 > > or if that URL does not work, try > http://www.jpost.com and go to "features" > > There are big problems with this article, as with so many newspaper Qumran > accounts, that I'll address if there is interest.
Actually, I found their theory quite intriguing, and there only seem to be "big problems" for the Essenes-at-any-cost camp. It will be interesting to see how those folks deal with the actual materials that these two have discovered. Broshi certainly didn't address the layers of clay etc. in his comments, just made some lame comments about presence of fuel and the difficulties of transporting pottery. But pottery was transported all over the ANE from earliest times, so that comment seems to be a smokescreen. As for wood, the same caravans transporting pottery could easily transport wood and other fuels. So Broshi really hasn't said anything (at least printed in the article) that really shows the idea to be "rubbish." It will be fascinating to see where this leads. -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur "No good. Hit on head." -Gronk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
