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From: Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:57 PM
Subject: orion-list Essenes and Jews/Judeans
To Dierk:
I wrote (to Dave Hindley) that I did not see the relevance of the
military supply you mentioned for determining
To Dierk:
I wrote (to Dave Hindley) that I did not see the relevance of the
military supply you mentioned for determining Josephus' audience. You
replied,
The ancient Romans had seen the relevance pretty well.
Could you explain the relevance to me, please?
To George Brooks, who wrote:
Peter Janku wrote,
It seems as if in Josephus`time, there was a widely expanded opinion
contesting the Jewishness of Essenes.
I, too, got this impression, from the translation used by GFMoore,
called Essenes, though by race they are Jews.
Thackeray's translation is also a bit misleading here.
