Re: [Megillot] Essenes, Sadducees, and Joseph Baumgarten

[herb basser]

Well, Ian, conventions are difficult to break, and truth be told my own 
adherence to my own claims and views is practised more in the breach than 
inthe observance: In Brill's Encyclopedia of Midrash (2005) p 513 you will 
find a caption Halakha and there you will find me comparing "halakhic 
approaches" in discussing biblical legal interpretation. Nonetheless, these 
are simply bad habits and require some discipline to change-- Like using 
inclusive language, which ingrains an awareness we have. I know what you 
write is how things are, but we need differentiating language if we are to 
see Qumran on its own terms and not relative to literatures we know better.

Herb  

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