Dear Prof. Ian Young,
Thanks for your reply. Your DSD 9 [2002] 364-90 article does indeed show close
MT relations in certain Masada texts, though these texts, as I see matters,
be few and, by you, quite questionably selected and quite questionably dated.
If I read your reply correctly, you
Ian Young has presented and discussed an article (DSD 9 [2002] 364-
90) on Masada texts, but it misdates both Masada and Qumran texts.
It is not the case that all see the MT situation at Masada as Young has it.
E.g. E. Ulrich, Two Perspectives on Two Pentiteuchal Manuscripts from Masada.'
in
[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
