In a letter to the Times Literary Supplement 15 July 2005 page 15, Peter W. Pick, who has been quoted in related late-scroll-dating newspaper articles by Neil Altman and David Crowder, claims to know of "many Christian and medieval features" of the scrolls.
He claimed that the Aramaic "Son of God" text is Christian, dating after Luke 1:32, 35. And: "In the important Isaiah scroll many medieval and anomalous features appear, such as the use of Western numbers, a system developed after 1200 AD, notations of '3X' written above the beginnings of passages that Christians claim prophetically refer to Jesus; and the appearance of non- Semitic words. Finally, the DSS catalogue cites Christian liturgical fragments, on the recto and verso of acodex page, a format that began to be used from the second century AD, as well as Arabic and Greek magical texts found in the caves of Wadi Murraba'at...." This letter, in my view, includes much misinformation. best, Stephen Goranson _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
