Re: [Megillot] Chocolate the the DSS

2007-08-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Biblical Taliban (I hope you know Pashto) are indeed in the need of such a kinder-chocolade not to get conditioned by the consensual Opium fields in the yard of the Madrasah. And, as is known, it protects against the dreaded DSS diarrhoea, result of a contamination of the texts with loc. 51,

Re: [Megillot] Qumran cemetery, once again...

2007-08-12 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Joe, are you indeed still living in the year of the Lord 1992 or before that you are absolutely not familiar with the actual Essene research since R. Bergmeier, J. Frey et al? We simply do not speak of Essene anymore since 1993 - it is simply not that simple as the famous Jesuits once have

Re: [Megillot] Satan and Belial

2007-08-09 Thread Dierk van den Berg
In 11Q15, 4 (PAM 43.895, not 42.895) ? Hard to say, really. Could be both. _Dierk - // - - Original Message - From: Jeffrey B. Gibson To: Dierk van den Berg Cc: g-megillot Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:26 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot

Re: [Megillot] Satan and Belial Offline

2007-08-09 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- From: Jeffrey B. Gibson To: Dierk van den Berg Cc: Suter, David ; g-megillot Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] Satan and Belial Offline Dierk van den Berg wrote:  That's humbug, David. Sorry to say that.cf. 1Q28b, I.8; 4Q213,1.17; 4Q 504

Re: [Megillot] Melki-resha

2007-08-07 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Melki-resha is the futuristic counterpart to Melki-tsedeq in the angelic judgement in the 10th Enochic Apocalypse of Weeks, the last jobel period, the 490 yrs epoch of a Deca-Jubilee following Judgement Day for all mankind, an event announced by an authoritative-mosaic herald (De 18.18; Wise:

[Megillot] Re: Megillot] Qumran, The hard evidence/ Milik's claim of excavating the skeleton of John the Baptist

2007-03-26 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Q-17 as part of the de Vaux excavation 1953 (anthropological diagnosed by Kurth) remained undiagnosed, ad hoc as well as in situ - the hortative paraffin block, as mute as Kubrick' fallen monolith, and who actually wants to make a remote diagnosis some two generations thereafter, here and now;

Re: [Megillot] clay and scrolls

2007-03-18 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@mcmaster.ca 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

Re: [Megillot] FW: Decoding the DSS

2007-03-07 Thread Dierk van den Berg
It really isn't outside the realm of possibility is it that if scrolls are being produced jars are also being produced at the same location to store them in? No Jim - for that would be utmost unproductive, not only in the narrower party-political sense. Let's put it this way, 'the exile' in

RE: [Megillot] R. Arav review of Y. Hirschfeld, Qumran in Context

2006-02-13 Thread Dierk van den Berg
[quote:] Rami Arav reviewed Yizhar Hirschfeld, Qumran in Context: Reassessing theArchaeological Evidence (2004) in AJS [Association of Jewish Studies] Review29.2 (2005) 373-6. [snip] And (also p. 375):"Placing Qumran in the context of Herodian estates would place the DSS out of

Re: [Megillot] Philo on Sadducees and Pharisees??

2005-07-29 Thread Dr. rer. nat. Dierk van den Berg
recurrences are always unimpressive. tot ziens _Dierk - Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: [Megillot] Philo on Sadducees and Pharisees?? Here's a heuristic exercise, for those open to it.

Re: [Megillot] Absalom, brother of Jannaeus (pesher Habakkuk v 9)

2005-05-13 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Would be a surprise if the term house of X would refer to the founder Absalom of the houseof Absalom. More likely, the founder antedates any reference to his house. _Dierk - Original Message - From: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

Re: [Megillot] Yannai suffering; ergon nomou

2005-04-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Under constitutional law, 'wickedness of an allegedly Yehoiarib King-Priest is doubtlessly given by quite other reasons, namely acc to the Davidic orientatated kingship without any priestly authority - a dogmatic pillar of the DSS, if memory serves. _Dierk - Original Message - From:

Re: [Megillot] called by the name of truth (1QpHab)

2005-04-14 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Recognizing Yannai as the wicked priest and Judah the Essene (doer of torah) as the teacher of righteousness will help us better understanding the roots of what is later called in Greek heresy in the newly-added (attested to my knowledge only post 70 CE) negative sense and what is likewise

Re: [Megillot] VanderKam on 4Q448

2005-04-08 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 12:47 PM Subject: [Megillot] VanderKam on 4Q448 [snip] I suggest it is time to focus on the chronology of wicked priest Alexander Jannaeus and

Re: [Megillot] the teacher and the high priest?

2005-03-16 Thread Dierk van den Berg
No - it's just an inductive argument, first made by Stegemann, if memory serves. _Dierk - Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 6:57 PM Subject: [Megillot] the teacher and the high priest? It has

Re: [Megillot] falsifying methodology; 3 cases; etc.

2005-03-14 Thread Dierk van den Berg
First of all, a paradoxographical seer-figure as integral part of a collection of anecdotes is just an interchangeable symbol, a political message without the need for any historicity. _Dierk - Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca

Re: [Megillot] pesharim typo, Jannaeus

2005-03-02 Thread Dierk van den Berg
There is no such evidence at all for a WP Jannaias mentioned below !!! However, we might read Alexander in the the way he was minted: YEHONATAN THE HIGH PRIEST And that is quite similar to the framing two YEHOHANAN THE HIGH PRIEST (make your decision which one is meant) In so far James Davila is

Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS

2005-02-21 Thread Dierk van den Berg
of cave 1-11 from Kh. Qumran) _Dierk - Original Message - From: Giuseppe Regalzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 2:25 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS Dierk van den Berg wrote: One might add that MurXII and 8HevXIIgr have nothing to do

Re: [Megillot] Neil Altman on Qumran, Toronto Star

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Epiphanius' half-witted Panarion is not even a tertiary source for a serious approach to the historicity of the DSS. Personally I have not enough sitzfleisch to deal with his obscure 'faces', amalgamated with a will that is doubtlessly off one's trolley and wholly bent on multiplication and

Re: [Megillot] Neil Altman on Qumran, Toronto Star

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
writing style to see that his confidence that he can refute heretics and his work to learn about various groups and their literature allows him to quote from them and describe them extensively, using many now-lost, hence quite valuable, sources. best, Stephen Goranson Quoting Dierk van den Berg

Re: Epiphanius (was Re: [Megillot] Neil Altman on Qumran, Toronto Star

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
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

Re: Epiphanius (was Re: [Megillot] Neil Altman on Qumran, Toronto Star

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
the Sons of Esau and their Samaritan allies in the late 2nd c.and early1st c. BCE as well as in the 1st c. CE. That's risible. _Dierk - Original Message - From: Jeffrey B. Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 5:42 PM Subject: Re

Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Text rests from Jonah are preserved in the Greek fragments of 4Q76 (4QXII/a) and 4Q81 (4Q XII/f). _Dierk - Original Message - From: Jeffrey B. Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 6:26 PM Subject: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS Can anyone

Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
To the 2nd part of the inquiry. Different from Maleachi (CD; 5Q10), with whom Jonah shares the stage of infliction (Aaron Schart 1998), Jonah citations are not used in the sectarian material, if memory serves. _Dierk - Original Message - From: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
of the yahad. And one reason for the absence of a pesher to Jonah might be founded in the unique lack of Israel allusions in the book. _Dierk - Original Message - From: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 7:10 PM Subject: Re

Re: Epiphanius (was Re: [Megillot] Neil Altman on Qumran, Toronto Star

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
a reminiscence of a special Yeshua. NB Branchers sounds somewhat silly, at least for my ears - reminds me of 'brunch' ... _Dierk - Original Message - From: Jack Kilmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]; g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2005 10

Re: [Megillot] Jonah in the DSS

2005-02-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
One might add that MurXII and 8HevXIIgr have nothing to do with the DSS. It is as I've already said: The book of Jonah is not used by the yahad - but by the precursor that run parallel under different names only to end up in the Q-logia as part of the Gospels. No signs of Jonah is given to the

Re: [Megillot] Fwd: [ANE] Qumran

2005-01-17 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Dear list members, We have just vague trends towards preferences of N-S orientation for males and E-W orientation for females on the exc. barrows of Kh. Qumran. Much later Bedouins were doubtlessly Muslims; hard to believe that they would have ever shared grave-fellowship with

Re: [Megillot] Bergmeier zeroxes

2005-01-11 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Andy, I have Photoshop 7.0and Acrobat 6.0 on my notebook, and Iraqi sand from the desert inside *g* However, please send me the material when the problemof opening the .jpgs remains; it should be no big deal to reproduce the article asperfect pdf file. _Dierk - Original Message

[Megillot] Eisenman et al.: parallel lives without interaction?

2005-01-07 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Dear List, Do we know of any thematic altercation between the religio-politcal groups of the Zealot Sons of Phinehas and the Zadokite Sons of Zadoq in their war of power? If we know of no such interaction, which is, as is generally known, inevitable between well-defined social groups that share

Re: [Megillot] scanning the article

2005-01-06 Thread Dierk van den Berg
J. Frey and H. Stegemann (eds.)_Qumran kontrovers_Beiträge zur den Textfundenvom Toten Meer, Bonifatius, Paderborn 2003, ISBN 3-89710-205-6, ~16 Euro. cf. http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/resources/bib/language/German.shtmlon Frey's article. Prof. S. Goranson holds a copy of the book, perhaps

Re: [Megillot] p. 25 of the Mason article

2005-01-06 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Seemingly a transcription error made by Acrobat Distiller. Already corrected. Please d/l anew. And inform me if there are even more transcription errors in the text. I'm in a hurry in the moment. Sorry. And a crafted MS-Word copy of the article would take some time, I think. _Dierk

[Megillot] OLM: S. G. Sheridan et al._The French Collection (2003)

2005-01-05 Thread Dierk van den Berg
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN REMAINS FROM KHIRBET QUMRAN: THE FRENCH COLLECTION by Susan Guise SHERIDAN, Jaime ULLINGER and Jeremy RAMP in: The Archaeology of Qumran, Vol. II. J-B Humbert, OP and J. Gunneweg, eds. Presses Universitaires de Fribourg, Suisse and the École Biblique et

Re: [Megillot] OLM: O. Roehrer-Ertl_Collectio Kurth (2000)

2005-01-03 Thread Dierk van den Berg
[Archaeology - Anthropology] COLLECTIO KURTH: Catalogue of official findings from the Qumran cemeteries Olav-Roehrer-Ertl's Homepage; last update 3/2004 http://www.primatology.de/de/anthropologie/qumran/index.html [on resexing and differentiation of the ad-hoc; cf. J. Zangenberg vs. J. Zias in

Re: [Megillot] anachronisms not; etc.

2004-12-28 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Stephen, J. Frey and H. Stegemann (Ed.)_Qumran kontrovers_Beiträge zur den Textfunden vom Toten Meer, Bonifatius, Paderborn 2003. The fact that Stegemann has edited an article by Bergmeier*, directly followed by a refutation by J. Frey**, which quite obviously turns into a kind of support for

Re: [Megillot] anachronisms not; etc.; typo +

2004-12-28 Thread Dierk van den Berg
) _Dierk - Original Message - From: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] anachronisms not; etc. - Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot

Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables

2004-12-27 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: Jack Kilmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]; g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables [...] The benches and tables are reconstructed and on display. [...] @Jack, Ed, Do you

Re: [Megillot] Qumran history (brief replies To R. Gmirkin)

2004-12-27 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 8:13 PM Subject: [Megillot] Qumran history (brief replies To R. Gmirkin) [...] P.S. Y. Hirschfeld p. 161 n. 222 claims J. Zangenberg (2000) systematically

Re: [Megillot] Qumran history (brief replies To R. Gmirkin)

2004-12-27 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Well, Stephen, then Zangenberg has already done with Zias in the meantime. I've thought the battle would last somewhat longer - what a bummer! _Dierk - Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dierk van den Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004

[Megillot] Online Material: Stephen J. Pfann in: NapaPaper 1997/2002

2004-12-26 Thread Dierk van den Berg
The Multi-layered Stratigraphy of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Stephen J. Pfann ASoOR Meetings at Napa, California (1997) rev. 2002 [.pdf] http://www.uhl.ac/Napa/NapaPaper.pdf [De te fabula narratur!] _dierk ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables

2004-12-26 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Has anybody pictures of art. no.(#) 967-971 of KhQ loc.30 ? Special interest in table # 970, which is not of type # 967 (# 969). Thanks in advance. _Dierk ___ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Megillot] Qumran history, again

2004-12-26 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Let me add this: Neither Posidonius nor Posidonius in Strabo Geo. 7.3.3-5 are to be called "Essene sources" - again the dissimilar similitude, herein the "life-without-woman" of the Temple-founding Dakae that reminds of the "sine ulla femina" in Pliny nat.hist. 5.73 and the corresponding

Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables

2004-12-26 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: Dave Washburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:53 AM Subject: Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables [...] If calculation is a scribal activity then I'd suppose that two of the three tables (# 967, # 969) were used for

Re: [Megillot] L30 Tables; calculation

2004-12-26 Thread Dierk van den Berg
O- I've missed to answer the calculation Well, the agricultural branch office is apparently the only workable alternative to a scroll factory. Now I don't know if you have seen the movie clip that I've uploaded earlier, for the clip deals in detail with Zangenberg's Qumran - a possible

Re: [Megillot] Qumran history, again

2004-12-22 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: Jack Kilmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jim West [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: g-megillot@McMaster.ca Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] Qumran history, again The Essene Gate did lead to something...the Bethso (Latrines)

[Megillot] Books: Qumran controversial 2003

2004-12-22 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Those interested in a more up-to-date controversy on Essenism, authorship of the DSS, halacha in the DSS and the archaeology of Chirbet Qumran should read the low-priced book (~15 EUR; 200 pages) ed. by J. Frey and H. Stegemann_Qumran kontrovers_Beiträge zur den Textfunden vom Toten Meer,

Re: [Megillot] J. Post on Qumran (problematic)

2004-12-21 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Philip wrote: So I guess we are more or less on the same mind. Also about the dangers of excessive confidence. One small step in the wrong direction can take you far from the destination even if thereafter you walk in a straight line. Scholarship is surely about retracing checking, changing

Re: [Megillot] J. Post on Qumran (problematic)

2004-12-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: philip davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:17 AM Subject: Re: [Megillot] J. Post on Qumran (problematic) The key problem is, and always has been, the connection between site and scrolls. We have a few pieces of

Re: [Megillot] Jonathan: 4Q448

2004-11-09 Thread Dierk van den Berg
Marginal note. The identified light at the end of the Essene tunnel might be the incoming 'Wizard of Oz' intercity train ... On the other hand, the political relation between the robust staff-movement (as one of the sources behind all literay Essenism) and the Herodian establisment of the 1st c.

Re: [Megillot] Jonathan: 4Q448, 4Q523, recent bibliography?

2004-11-05 Thread Dierk van den Berg
- Original Message - From: Stephen Goranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:55 PM Subject: [Megillot] Jonathan: 4Q448, 4Q523, recent bibliography? [snip] Posidonius and Strabo, sources on Essenes, considered Alexander, explicitly named, as

Re: [Megillot] Misdating scrolls (I. Young article)

2004-06-20 Thread Dierk van den Berg
[snip] Calling on early Qumran deposit is not only a deus ex machina but one undefined: Ian Young does not investigate whether the Doudna/ Ian Hutchesson dating has made any credible claim, has any merit, can really toss out paleography, archaeology, C14, says that's outside the bounds of the

Re: [Megillot] Redating the Dead Sea Scroll Deposits

2004-06-17 Thread Dierk van den Berg
4. Note that one of the critics of this asking the question of evidence for Period II scroll deposits, Stephen Goranson, holds that the inhabitants at the end of Qumran Period II were probably different than the inhabitants at the end of Qumran Period Ib, probably? It would be impossible by

[Megillot] The movement of the mechoqeq

2004-04-23 Thread Dierk van den Berg
I'm working on an investigation of the movement of the mechoqeq, esp. the further being ofthis 'party of the blind' after the conflict of Torah revelation and the to be expected split caused by the moreh ha-tsedeq Any help would be appreciated. Dierk---Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen