Well, Ian, conventions are difficult to break, and truth be told my own
adherence to my own claims and views is practised more in the breach than
inthe observance: In Brill's Encyclopedia of Midrash (2005) p 513 you will
find a caption Halakha and there you will find me comparing "halakhic
approaches" in discussing biblical legal interpretation. Nonetheless, these
are simply bad habits and require some discipline to change-- Like using
inclusive language, which ingrains an awareness we have. I know what you
write is how things are, but we need differentiating language if we are to
see Qumran on its own terms and not relative to literatures we know better.
Herb
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