----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Doudna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "g-megillot" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:02 PM Subject: [Megillot] A correction on "Straight Questions"
> Is the dating of Qumran text deposits as late as 1st CE, > which for so long has been thought to be a fact, in fact, a fact? > > Greg Doudna > Bellingham, Washington >From the very beginning it was just an "ersatz-fact", a fiction based upon the "Josephean" influenced assumption of parallel existence of literarily productive, philosophical orientated Zadokite "Essenes" and literarily reproductive, "Phineas' zeal for God" recopying , ie.action orientated "Zealots". Such a shift in the covenant from faith in to zeal for Gold, the common radicalization determines the Qumran deposit as early (greg knows my position herein) and the finding at Masada as later relict of a usually following political rennaissance former basic concepts. The Zealots are, then, to be understood as radical Neo-Zadokites. The "Qumran parties" show absolutely no knowledge of Phineas Zealots or even Phineas-like zeal (actually the name Phineas is irrelevant in the corpus) and there is thus no interaction whatsoever between the earlier and the later pious ones. _Dierk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
