For some reason my postings have not gone through, am I banned from the list ?Joe
Joe Zias www.joezias.com Anthropology/Paleopathology Science and Antiquity Group @ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel
Stephen, If you have bothered to read my article which is available on the
ANE list you will see that I answer several of your questions there.
I would remind you that Royal estates require workers who require pots,
clothes, shoes, etc etc much of which is manufactured in 'industrial'
suburb
Dear ColleaguesSome years ago, while leaving the Hadassah Medical School where I had been doing some research, I was approached by a rather frail individual who asked in English if I was driving towards Jerusalem and if he could have a ride. During the short ride to Jrsm. the individual mentione
David, if, as you propose, Qumran could only be inhabited, early on,
seasonally,
when Magen and Peleg claim it was a 'fortress" that would be an oddly
ineffective one, would it not?
If it's easier to make cheap export-pottery elsewhere (as if that has been
shown, where what pottery went) why the
Stephen, you wrote;-
Of course the three often-published inkwells from de Vaux's Qumran dig are
genuine inkwells.
I do not doubt that they are inkwells but as I replied on the ANE list -
Most of the inkwells were ceramic; there were indubitably pottery
kilns at Qumran. It is not beyond the
Of course the three often-published inkwells from de Vaux's Qumran dig are
genuine inkwells. One can learn about inkwells by attending to the forms and
developments, and the literature, and the ancient descriptions and depictions
(e.g. at Pompeii). Then there are other hints: "One of these inkwells
