Dear Mathew,
I share your caution regarding spindle whorls and fabric fragments as indicators
for female presence or non-presence in Qumran, for several reasons:
1. Our records on small finds from Qumran are less than insufficient and do not
allow us to gain a nearly complete picture of
Geoff wrote;
Why does Josephus need to tell us who Matthias
married? The reason could have been to show how important this ancester
Matthias was? But was this marriage to a high priest's daughter recognised
by Josephus' ancestors as the route to priesthood?
The answer to the first question
