Re: orion-list Essenes and Jews/Judeans

[Dierk van den Berg]

[snip]
> Boundary Behaviors are insufficient to identify a group-- they are
> functional and utilitarian, social but not descriptive of any one specific
> entity.
[snip]
> Thus there is nothing to learn from Essene behavior towards other Jews
> about how they viewed their Jewish identity.
>
>
> Herb Basser

I agree.
Dierk

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