Please read "advancement" instead of "forthcoming". When reading some nested sentences in Bergmeier's "Essene Reports in Josephus" I had seemingly the German "fortkommen" in mind. Sorry. We're still living in Babylon.
Catchword foreign language: I doubt that Steve Mason* has fully understood Bergmeier's German, so that his refutation hardly provides a proper basis for Anglophone readers interested in the subject matter. A similar phenomenon occured a few weeks ago in a discourse with Greg Doudna on Hyrcan II in Stegemann's known "Essenes, Qumran, John the Baptist and Jesus" - what we read in English slightly differs from the German original. Normally this is no big problem, but when a pythagorizing source turns into a Pythagorean source and pythagorizing Essenes into Essene Pythagoreans things go wrong. * S. Mason_What Josephus Says about the Essenes in his Judean War_ Part One (Orion Archive) _Dierk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dierk van den Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <g-megillot@McMaster.ca> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [Megillot] anachronisms & not; etc. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen Goranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <g-megillot@McMaster.ca> > Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 3:13 PM > Subject: Re: [Megillot] anachronisms & not; etc. > > > > Dierk, > > > > Thanks for clarifying what you meant. I bought and still have R. > Bergmeier's > > book, and read it and read every available review, and Duke library owns > it > > too; and I have _Qumran kontrovers_ checked out and at home. > > > > I didn't notice any burning "at the stake of ignorance," Giordano > Bruno-like, > > or otherwise. > > > > Not in "Qumran kontrovers" 2003, Stephen, but in the days after the release > of "Die Essenerberichte des Flavius Josephus" 1993 in the Netherlands > (sic!).Wasn't it you who has always pointed to Bergmeier's "retreat from the > own arguments", thus his further irrelevance for the forthcoming of the > Essene research, already a decade ago on Qumran-Bet? But as you can see: > there was no such retreat ( B. didn't even chance a yota of his arguments), > merely a muzzle from above and a book that soon had to fade away from the > market, simply because it wasn't conform to the contemporary understanding > of Essene historicity and - as a result - to the historicity of Stegemann's > Essene Union (a fairy tale as we know today). > > _Dierk _______________________________________________ g-Megillot mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.McMaster.CA/mailman/listinfo/g-megillot
