On Saturday 18 December 2004 13:42, Dierk van den Berg wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Goranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <g-megillot@McMaster.ca> > Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 9:11 PM > Subject: Re: [Megillot] J. Post on Qumran (problematic) > > > [snip] > > > And some of us may venture to suggest that the Qumran 900 or so ms > > remains > > are > > > more significant than that clay. > > > > Stephen Goranson > > Where the 900 mss perhaps found in the pool? or the site? > There is absolutely no reson to connect the scrolls with the site. > But I see that only a few here have watched the movie clip on Zangenberg's > excavation of 2003/4. One has to be a fool to separate the texts from the > site, as Hanan Eshel states in the clip, if memory serves. Perhaps, perhaps > not. The true question is: who is the greater fool; only history will tell > us - but this already soon...
Apparently it's just supposed to be a matter of propinquity: they're near each other so they must be related. This kind of flying leap has given us "tables" that are actually benches, a handful of inkwells that are supposed to lead us to see some 200 or so scribes (as if scribes were the only ones who ever used inkwells, and what did the other 195 or so do for ink?), a clothes-scrubbing rock that must be so because that's how de Vaux' mother did it, and all the rest of the badly manipulated "evidence" that's supposed to connect the two. I found it interesting that the archaeologists in the article said that, if they are correct, tour guidebooks and other materials will have to be rewritten. But even if they do prove to be correct, it's doubtful that anybody with any commercial interest in the site, or that the Essenes-at-any-cost folks, will rewrite anything. In the scholarly world, the most effective way to suppress an idea that goes contrary to the conventional wisdom is to pretend it's not there. Sad, but true. -- Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur "No good. Hit on head." -Gronk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
