Essene at Kh. Qumran? Well, that is just a classical fairy tale, apparently born in trying to find the roots of the own sitz-im-leben. However, people that know, if ever, only the non-qumranic material were never ever visiting with the site owners!!!
Logically, the reverse doesn't impress me much.
_Dierk
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Goranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: Epiphanius (was Re: [Megillot] Neil Altman on Qumran, Toronto Star
About 20 years ago I wrote that Epiphanius' Panarion was the most important
patristic text not yet (not then) fully translated into a modern European
language (unless you count Russian); Prof. Elizabeth A. Clark (known as
president of AAR, NAPS, etc. etc.) agreed.
His account of torah-observing Jewish Ossaioi/Osshnoi is important.
"As examples of valuable information already recognized in Panarion, consider
that it includes: extracts of the gospel of Marcion (Heresy 42.11); the letter
of Ptolemy the gnostic (Heresy 33.3-8); Montanist oracles (Heresy 48); writings
by Marcellus and his opponent Basil (Heresy 72); long quotations of Methodius
writing on resurrection against Origen (Heresy 64); titles of many gnostic
books (e.g., Heresy 26.8.1). This list could easily be extended, and further
examples will be discussed in the course of this study (p. 16)"--that is, my
1990 Duke dissertation.
Of course he needs to be read critically, but he is an important source on so-
called heresies and minut, certainly relevant to history of Essenes at Qumran
and elsewhere.
best, Stephen Goranson
Quoting Dierk van den Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Epiphanius - important for what? [....]
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