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From: "Jack Kilmon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dierk van den Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables
[...]
> > Assumedly for writing and/or calculation, but assumedly it was no
> > Triclinium
> > (an anachronistic term with Catholic connotation)
>
> I would argue this but it is not the point of the discussion.
Argue what? the 'triclinium' in parentheses (checked) or 'writing and/or
calculation' ?
[...]
> > No Scriptorium (again an anachronistic term), but perhaps a branch
office.
>
> Scriptorium need not be a "monastic" term but a word that represents a
place
> where scribal activity took place. They may have called it maqom ha sefer
> but it is still irrelevent to my point. Were those cotton pickin tables
> used for writing?
If calculation is a scribal activity then I'd suppose that two of the three
tables (# 967, # 969) were used for writing.
[...]
> > Traces of ink - perhaps, perhaps not.
>
> Again, if those tables were used for writing texts over any period of
time,
> there will indeed be evidence of it. Microscopic particles of ink from
> tapping reed pens. Blots, accidental spills, bleed through, even smears
> from ink on thumbs. Traces of ink carbon, gallic acid, etc.
Yes, but what if the articles in question are still archived in plastic bags
and cartons as it was the case with the Collectio Kurth - skeletons from 23
graves of the main cemetery, objects of de Vaux's 1st campaign 1958, edited
by O. Roehrer-Ertl and F. Rohrhirsch not until 2001?
[...]
> > For sure one would find the genetic fingerprint of P�re Roland de Vaux.
>
> I am not all that concerned with Fr. de Vaux's "monastery imagery" but
just
> want to know if these tests on those surfaces have been done and, if not,
it
> is not serious science being done over there.
I don't think that any modern tests were made up to now.
[...]
> > The word ("scriptorium") remains in quotation marks due to its
anachronistic
> connotation.
> Well, there were scribal school traditions throughout ancient Palestine
and
> I do not believe that the DSS and Torahs were written "lap style." A
> scriptorium means "place for scribing" and would be the same as a maqom
> haSefer.
The difference is that "scriptorium" was never ever the name of this
"room" - and those who wrote were neither "fundamentalists" nor archetypical
"monks" - the matrix of technical terms simply doesn't meet the criteria
here.
> The question remains open whether those tables from L30 were used
> for writing and proper forensic examination would settle the issue. Why
in
> the pluperfect holy smoke has it not been done?
Agreed. But I do not know what has caused the Rip van Winkle sleep in the
DSS research. A shame (see the Collectio Kurth) in any case.
[...]
tot ziens,
_Dierk
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