----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 5:45 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] clay and scrolls
> > > On 8 Mar 2007 at 8:52, Søren Holst wrote: > >> Dave Washburn wrote: >> <[snip] > But then it turns around and notes that the jars came from different > places, and it appears > that it just sort of automatically jumps from that to the idea that if the > jars came from different > places, then the scrolls may have, too. It seems to me that the simpler > explanation would > be that a scroll-producing group bought jars from different places and put > their scrolls in > them. Alternately, if the jars and the scrolls are from various places, > then it seems unlikely > that we have a breakaway community with a scriptorium making scrolls to > put in the jars. I > don't see how we can have it both ways. > > But my main problem was what appeared to be an automatic leap from > diverse-source jars > to diverse-sources scrolls therein. I don't see any good reason to make > that leap. > > Does that clear it up? > > Dave Washburn > "Bash the ground until bananas come out." --------------------------------------------------- A jar is well-defined not by the clay but by the potter! A "scroll-producing group" (a kind of anachronistic Megillot Inc ?) that hides material without leaving a single snippet in the "production facility", well, that was already part of the Essenes hypothesis of the deceased Hartmut Stegemann, a "backward orientated cargo-cult hypothesis" (Johann Maier) dead as a dodo since long, for it still took the literary refs. to the Essenes - versus Roland Bergmeier's investigations of the early 1990s - for literal per se, viz for "historical in toto". Unfortunately, Stegenmann's hypothesis offers absolutely no argument to deal with the "two clearly to be decided social (tooth-)classes" within the 1953er Collectio Kurth identified by Olav Roehrer-Ertl in 2000 (Pustet; cf. Brill publication 2006). _Dierk _ RU Nijmegen, NL ------------------------------------------- kullu nafsin dsa 'iqatu l-mawt (surah 3.185) *all living is pervaded by the taste of death* [Momentum of Shiite al-Mahdi Messianism]
