Russell Gmirkin,
You write:
"...for instance, Pliny's commentary on perpetuation of a community
by adoption of others - "Thus through thousands of ages (incredible to
relate)
a race in which no one is born lives on forever" - is a typical
Aristotelean /
paradoxical theoretical formulation of no historical value, but
expresses
(in typical purple prose) interest in unique/bizarre political
institutions of others."
Why is it that you think this reference is of no historical value?
Do you mean "historical" in some special or technical way? Or do you
not think it really applies to "our Essenes"?
George Brooks
Tampa, FL
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