Dear Russell,
Shalom, thanks for the sentiments regarding my paper on the cemetery. As
for your comments on Hirschfeld's attempt to portray the site as a manor
house, from information that I have heard here, few archaeologists accept
his theory on
archaeological grounds. The site is one of the m
Dear Joe Zias,
Thanks for your comments.
I agree that Golb's idea of Qumran as fortress with military cemetery is
dead, but I don't think Hirschfeld's analysis of the site of Qumran can
be easily dismissed (although his proposal of Essenes above En Gedi appears
incorrect). The low
Dear Joe Zias,
Not to be a bother, but I recently reread your article "The Cemeteries of
Qumran and Celibacy" in DSD 7, and I had some follow-up queries. First, if I
understand the diagram in Figure 1 from Humbert and Chabon, and read de Vaux
correctly, the graves in the southern cemetery
Dear Ian
I think that you have overreacted in suggesting that out of hand I rejected
the findings of the Germans and that of Steckoll. The latter I reject out of
hand for reasons which I state in my paper as well as having actually seen
the skeletal material. The data as well as conclusions are s
