re he says it was likely that balsam bushes and date
palms were grown.
>trace analysis of dehydrated moss (salt
>content)and/or algae (former redox-potential)?
Hirschfeld doesn't supply any information on these points.
Ian Hutches
smaller, site at Nahal Kidron South
excavated by U. Dahari of the I.A.A., where 10 cells were found.
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Thanks for any opinions or pointers.
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graphic work in Mishnaic
Hebrew". Does anyone know what makes this text MH?
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tions under the carpet, complaining that they "skew the
issues". I don't see how they skewed the "issues". Perhaps you could explain. They
seem like relevant philological problems which you could clarify. It's not too late.
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you needed to launch into another attack on the 63 BCE hypothesis, especially an
attack which is apparently so unsupported.
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rry about any confusion.
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kewise. Some real
evidence? We are at the starting point on that with the Essenes nothing has come
along. We have to stop fantasizing about them and go for the facts that are
available.
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the site. But the only reason I can see to suggest "the **north**-west Dead Sea
shore" is on a priori grounds, ie one believes that Qumran must be what Pliny was
talking about. He merely says, "Ab occidente [to the west] litora Esseni fugiunt
usque qua nocent".
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h we
have evidence of a destruction at the site specifically at the necessary time.
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at a general dating.
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t;intrinsic understanding of the term (according to Lewis & Short).
Naturally that should have been "(according to Liddell & Scott)". (I was also
dealing with a Greek text at the time!)
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ve kilometres, rather than the
30 km from Ein Gedi to Qumran -- Pliny doesn't say. So your reading of Strack
doesn't appear to be derived from what he wrote.
You will remember the debate in RB 68 & 69 between Audet, Burchard and
Laperoussez
in which three pro-Essene scholars negate
olinus doesn't mention Asphaltatis at all in this passage about the Essenes, but
says that they are found in the interior of Judea. Solinus wasn't describing Qumran
(as it is not in the interior, and its major locating factor is the Dead Sea), but
he could have bee
in this passage, one would naturally
expect an "a meridie" if the writer were to be consistent, but as "infra" is being
used it is probably indicating something else.
>Otherwise one would expect a
>specification like 'infra... ...inter septentriones et occasium solis
>(s
Univ.
Has this been written up anywhere accessible?
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Has this been written up anywhere accessible?
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roshi's analysis.
With only these two lines and no historical context with which to make sense of the
unidentified name pwtl'ys, I think people have been grasping at straws over this
tiny fragment. I don't feel much for arguments from silence, like, "there is no
better candi
osted evidence that Ein Gedi had a large structure which was in use
in the first century thought by its excavators to have been an official building,
eventually destroyed during the Jewish War.
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hypothesis. I see no way for the scrolls at present to offer any direct information
about the Essenes at all.
As for:
>Last but not least, please see the
>numerous careful, well-informed publications of Emanuel Tov, which give
>multiple indications or "tra
ommunity" y$]' pnyw 'l kwl `dtkh.
The absence of a mention of the sons of Aaron is noteworthy.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
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the high priest, but
about another sort of priest, ie a son of Aaron.
I hope this has clarified the idea. (As it seems
relatively obvious to me, I still might not have made
it clear to other people.)
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between the writing of Ezekiel with his sons of Zadok as temple leaders and
of the references to the sons of Zadok in the DSS. As high priests, they
had access to God through the holy of holies, as one expects from the sons
of Zadok who wer
t Bedouin burials?
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ot; (If anyone knows what this is about I would be rather interested.)
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umstances
of this cemetery and the problems concerning it as
relatively exhaustive.
And thanks for the information about the use of madder.
It didn't make much sense before.
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in Abegg, "The Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls", in
The DSS after 50 Years, eds Flint & VanderKam, Brill, 1998.
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s) where the information is found, which is normal
procedure.
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he details at hand -- perhaps someone else has
read it. It suggests a very low literacy rate. Why should this
not also be true of the Essenes, who were after all of a class
of people from whom one wouldn't expect people with the
necessary education?
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th ample space at each end suggesting that it was
not intrusive and nothing else indicates that it was
extraneous. (It gave Bar-Adon some doubts because of its
orientation, but apparently resembled the rest of the
graves in other respects. He also mentions another,
rael. The is nothing particularly
suggestive that the site had any other special usage. The
animal various bones buried in pottery suggest very little
religious activity at the site.
All there is left is your analysis of the cemetery, which
does not confront Steckoll's data front on, b
lowed
older religious traditions and did not adhere to the
"innovations" of the Pharisees.)
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.
And I don't think you have enough data from the
cemetery -- seeing that the vast majority of it has
not been excavated -- to make your claims about it
(add to the problem your apparent shaping of the
data by ignoring Steckoll's
kite, to him not being the son of the
>previous Hight Priest as was the custom at that time, to him not
>being off aaronite descent.
1 Macc 7:14 has the Hasidaeans saying of Alcimus, "A priest of
the line of Aaron ... will not harm us."
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at least someone else has
arrived at the same point from some other direction!
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t what height that
>forms an open basin feeder system for micro-climate 'B'. There's also the
>point that Ein Feshka is an open basin.
This may be interesting theoretically, but have there
been any signs of drastic change anywhere along the
western side of the Dead Sea?
temple purity -- which had its own possessions,
while individuals maintained theirs, which was a male-only
association, while individuals were almost certainly
married (there is a lot about marriage in the scrolls).
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We
can't start with the -- in this case -- unlearned
opinion of de Vaux, who after all was not an architect
or a geologist. (See p.20 of Archaeology and the DSS.)
>-- and then get back to me.
I think the ball is still in your court: what
a
ne period of habitation and/or water-level does not
>necessarily apply to the other.
What are the sources that indicate that the water
level was noticeably different between the two
periods? (This is interesting, though I would be
happy even with just a quotable indication of the
general
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