Re: [Megillot] Qumran history, again

[Dierk van den Berg]

Let me add this: Neither Posidonius nor Posidonius in Strabo Geo. 7.3.3-5 are to be called "Essene sources" - again the dissimilar similitude, here in the "life-without-woman" of the Temple-founding Dakae that reminds of the "sine ulla femina" in Pliny nat.hist. 5.73 and the corresponding parallels Bell 2.120f.,160f. and Philo contempl 18. Cf. R. Bergmeier, Essene Reports in Josephus_ Kampen (NL) 1993, pp.81-82   tot ziens, _Dierk