, 2002 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: orion-list Essene cemetery at Jericho?
Dear Joe,
Perhaps you're right that I'm over reacting regarding Roehrer-Ertl.
I don't think I am regarding Steckoll.
As a former museum curator denying public access to
researchers in unheard of.
(This is the story
, June 08, 2002 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: orion-list Essene cemetery at Jericho?
Dear Joe,
You wrote:
My attempt to define the site of Qumran, Ain el-Ghuweir and posssibly
Zissu's site in Jerusalem as Essene is based mainly on demographics, i.e.
the lack of women with the exception of one
Dear Joe,
Perhaps you're right that I'm over reacting regarding Roehrer-Ertl.
I don't think I am regarding Steckoll.
As a former museum curator denying public access to
researchers in unheard of.
(This is the story of the scrolls until the early 90s.)
As for Steckoll having a permit to
ignorance, halacha is one area in which I have decided not to
stray,
and know little, if anything about.
Joe
Joe Zias
Science and Archaeology @ The Hebrew University
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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
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 Joe,
You wrote:
My attempt to define the site of Qumran, Ain el-Ghuweir and posssibly
Zissu's site in Jerusalem as Essene is based mainly on demographics, i.e.
the lack of women with the exception of one at Qumran and the lack of young
children at all of the three sites.
This is your
Dear Joe Zias,
First, I think your observations on the apparent bedouin burials in the
auxiliary cemetery (if I may call it that) is one of the more important
recent contributions to Qumran archaeology, alongside Hirschfeld's
identification of the remains as a fortified manor house based
Dear Russell,
The cemetery at Qumran belongs to a type of burial ground that is well
established in the Eastern Mediterranean. In recent years, graves of the type
found at Qumran have been discovered at several sites in (el-Ghuweir, Safafa and
more) AND outside Judea (I only mention Khirbet
Dear Jürgen Zangenberg and Joe Zias,
Thank you for your replies. I admire both of your contributions to the
field and hoped you would respond. Joe, I will reread your article from DSD.
On the relationship between Qumran and Ain el-Ghuweir, as I recall a recent
article in IEJ on
Dear Russell,
You raised an interesting question! Dame Kenyon indeed excavated several shaft
tombs on Tell es-Sultan (see Chrystal Bennett's report in Kenyon, Jericho II,
London 1965, 516-546). Only the third subtype described by Bennett (p. 516) seems
to be directly comparable to the ones
Dear Russell
Regarding your query as to whether the Roman period graves found in Jericho
show affinities to those at Qumran, the scant archaeological evidence, which
I pointed out in my article (The Cemeteries of Qumran and Celibacy:
Confusion Laid to Rest? (Dead Sea Discoveries Vol.7 no. 2)
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