Stephen,
With regard to scribal practice in villages and small towns, see also The
Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters : Greek Papyri
by Naphtali Lewis.
David Suter
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From: Stephen Goranson
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Sent: 5/19/01 10:56 PM
Subject: orion-list Puech on names; pottery neutrons; Esau; rural writing;
etc.
In "The Papyrology of the Roman Near East: A Survey," J. of
Roman
Studies 85 (1995) 214-35 (here 235), H.M. Cotton et al. conclude: "A
considerable proportion of the documents listed here do not eminate from
cities, but from country districts characterized by villages and small
towns." In other words, Qumran texts need not have come from Jerusalem.
Noted in this article as forthcoming and now in print is Ada Yardeni,
Textbook of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Nabataean Documentary Texts from the
Judaean Desert and Related Materials (Hebrew; non vidi). G. Doudna has
proposed that the dates given by A. Yardeni are too late (up to 130-some
years). Perhaps he could review this book and explain his alternate
daing
proposal.
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