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On 2001-06-20 Robert A. Kraft said:
How about a new thread: what evidence do we have from antiquity for
Jewish libraries (public or private collections of scrolls) in
various areas of Pliny's Judaea apart
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On the very interesting posts in the Pliny discussion
a question for Robert Kraft:
I think you have given the first real argument that I have
seen that Pliny's meaning of 'infra' may not be entirely
ambiguous but solvable by attention to context. Pliny's
Esseni at high elevation 'from the
Dear Greg,
First off, you are correct that in Philo the Essenes are Jews par
excellance, i.e., exemplars of Jewish virtues, as is well known in the
secondary literature. Many of the virtues Philo attributed to the Essenes
and/or Therapeutae he elsewhere attributes to the Jews. I also
