Dave Washburn wrote:
I frequently wonder why otherwise competent scholars come up with statements
like this
one:
---
Although chemical analysis indicated that several cave jars were made from clay
found near
Qumran, it also showed material from five other locations, suggesting that the
scrol
It really isn't outside the realm of possibility is it that if scrolls are
being produced jars are also being produced at the same location to store
them in?
No Jim - for that would be utmost unproductive, not only in the narrower
party-political sense. Let's put it this way, 'the exile' in
Agreed those things are possible. But it's equally possible that they (whoever
they were; I
agree with you about the whole Essene thing) just bought jars wherever they
could and put
scrolls they had already made into them. That's my gripe: the article goes
immediately from
"jars from differ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I frequently wonder why otherwise competent scholars come up with statements like this
one:
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Although chemical analysis indicated that several cave jars were made from clay found near
Qumran, it also showed material from five other locations, suggesting that the s
I frequently wonder why otherwise competent scholars come up with statements
like this
one:
---
Although chemical analysis indicated that several cave jars were made from clay
found near
Qumran, it also showed material from five other locations, suggesting that the
scrolls might
have origina
The list just shows at first the obsolete intention to engraft Chirbet Q. on
the scroll corpus. Though even Roehrer-Ertl is missed as well as Zias,
Zangenberg or Rohrhirsch, to mention only a few. IMO that sounds weak -
utmost weak in 2007. And btw, I guess if Magness really wants to claim the
The list of scholars involved is quite impressive
http://www.religionnews.com/press02/PR030707A.html
save for Baigent, who is hardly a scholar.
Ken Penner wrote:
Forwarded for Stephen Goranson:
Hi,
Here's an online article, perhaps one to note for g-megillot
and/or orion "in the news." It
Forwarded for Stephen Goranson:
> Hi,
> Here's an online article, perhaps one to note for g-megillot
> and/or orion "in the news." It's from December 2006; the
> title at the newsletter link, "Decoding the Dead Sea
> Scrolls," is the same as that of a National Geographic show
> next Sunday, c
