e to think I must be right, since he is wrong more often
than not on this as on other matters.
Philip Davies
Greg Doudna wrote:
In the interesting discussion of Davies
and Gmirkin, both, along with
everyone else in print to my knowledge, assume CD 6.10-11 refers
to a future Teacher of Rig
Sorry to be a pedant. I reread 4Qpesher Nahum and did not find the
name of Alexander Jannaeus. Has a new fragment been published? Or is
this shorthand for 'a 'furious lion cub' which most scholars identify
with Jannaeus (but not Doudna, who I think here has made a
respectable case for an altern
Can I suggest that if we are going to devote any attention to such
nonsense the list will quickly become overcrowded. This kind of stuff
ought just to be ignored.
In a letter to the Times Literary Supplement 15 July 2005 page 15, Peter W.
Pick, who has been quoted in related late-scroll-
As every New testament scholar knows (or should), there is a Jesus of
history and a Christ of faith. So no doubt with the Teacher; whoever
historically this person may have been, the texts do not necessarily
point directly to him. A good example is the impression that he was
persecuted by a 'Wi
. I remain to be convinced that the 'rabbinic
sense' is sufficiently different (hardly different, really) to
warrant a distinct terminology.
I. at any rate, despite the structures of my dear friend Al
Baumgarten, prefer this to any other word (such as??) for this
hermeneutical techn
I agree with Dierk's reservations on all three counts.
As for 'exile' - well, exile seems to have become the essential claim
of nearly every Second Temple Jew..obviously in most senses
figurative. One of the few things I disagree with my good friend
George Brooke about is that the 'way in t
he industry alive and help our
successors. If we do solve a problem, let's leave two in its place.
Philip Davies
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University of Sheffield
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Title: history
In reply to Stephen's comment below:
I have written elsewhere about the relationship between 1QH and
the pesharim, concluding that data in the latter about the life of the
Teacher and of his opponents are not reliable. I do accept that there
are a (very) few references in the DSS
on. I hope it does not seem either
too sceptical or too credulous.
Philip Davies
Philip Davies wrote,
> The one historical conclusions that might be permitted is that
if
> Josephus has been asked wither the group(s) described in D were
what
> he would dub 'Essenes' he w
y
never be certain enough to base any critical history upon, and (b)
tell us little about the nature and origin of the groups represented
in the texts.
Yes, I do like doing history. But the sort of history that we can
work at rather than may informed or uninformed guesses about and
which in th
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