Is there really any intention to find strange texts of the political
opponent within the corpus of the DSS? treaties with a nonexistent Sparta?
one sided amicitia with Rome? Indian elephants and Greek mercenaries called
'Cypriots'?
N.b. 'infra' (adv.) means 'below'; and a passage that
Looking for previously known texts (e.g. 1, 2 Maccabees) which are missing
at Qumran is only one, incomplete, way to characterize what the collection
has and does not have. Looking at the previously unknown texts (and
looking at all the texts anew), one can ask whether any particular Qumran
Interesting point, Herbert. Ephron has I think convincingly demonstrated
that the Talmudic passage on the dispute between the Pharisees and Sadducees
under Hyrkanus I to which you refer is not an independent tradition but
derives from Josephus. (His argument, as I recall, hinges on the
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It appears my message got lost in cyber space so ill try again: pharisees
had some written texts-- the books of the hebrew bible. these were found
at qumran, they had possibly two other written texts, one a list of dates
whne fasting was forbidden, another written in biblical hebrew style
