In the perennial search to understand why sons of Zadok are
mentioned in the scrolls at all, I was reading Jeremias,
Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus, when I came across his
reading of the Zadokite return to Jerusalem at the time of
Menelaus. Jeremias is insistent that it was not Jason who
This Sunday there are a series of seminars some of you may be interested
in.
ON THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN TEXT AND LITERARY CRITICISM
(in the presence of Professor Alexander Rofe)
10:00am - 5:00pm, Sunday, 16 June, 2002
Conference Hall, Kreitman Building
Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
For those of you who havent' received an invitation, here's a reminder:
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, BEER SHEVA
The Department of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
With participation of
The Norbert Blechner Chair of Jewish Values
Is pleased to invite the public to a conference on the
A few Qumran scrolls have some writing in red ink on them (e.g.,
4QNum-b, 2QPs), and in most cases their editors plausibly suggest that
this may indicate a liturgical function (see, e.g., DJD XII, p. 211 for
4QNum-b).
I was wondering if the use of red ink could additionally suggest that
the
