Re: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim

2002-05-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Gibson
George Brooks wrote: > Dear David Suter, > > You are correct. I did miss your response. Thank you for taking > the time to re-send it. My responses are below: > > You write: > > The Rechabites as a priesthood seems unlikely. They are more likely > > > smiths (the meaning of the name Cain), w

Re: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim

2002-05-28 Thread Ian Hutchesson
The book of Jeremiah is clear about the fact that the house of the Rechabites was not a priesthood. The book says much about priests, so there is no reticence at all talking of priests, so, if the Rechabites had been priests, there is no reason for them not to have been called so. The next

Re: orion-list Qumran Hebrew

2002-05-28 Thread Ian Hutchesson
> Before the publication of all the scrolls, the language of the scrolls >was classified as Late Biblical Hebrew, largely based on the Isaiah scroll. >More recently the terminology "Qumran Hebrew" has become current. Can anyone >on the list refer me to recent bibliography on the relation

Re: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim

2002-05-28 Thread George Brooks
Prof. Gibson provides some ideas regarding the interpretation of the Eusebius reference to the Rechabim. He writes: One explains it first by noting that you rely too heavily not on the actual text of Eusebius, but on a particular English translation of it (that of G.A. Williamson) that is con

Re: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim

2002-05-28 Thread Jeffrey B. Gibson
Geoff Hudson wrote: > So how does one explain the almost incidental remark about priestly > Rechabites in Eusebius' history (2.23) and said to have been written by > Hegesippus?: > > 'While they pelted him (James) with stones, one of the descendants of Rechab > the son of the Rechabim -- the PRIE

RE: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim

2002-05-28 Thread Geoff Hudson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Suter Sent: 28 May 2002 05:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim David Suter wrote: The Rechabites as a priesthood seems unlikely. George Bro

Re: orion-list Jeremiah's Eternal Priesthood, the Rechabim

2002-05-28 Thread George Brooks
Dear David Suter, You are correct. I did miss your response. Thank you for taking the time to re-send it. My responses are below: You write: > The Rechabites as a priesthood seems unlikely. They are more likely > smiths (the meaning of the name Cain), with their customs to be > explained by

orion-list Qumran Hebrew

2002-05-28 Thread Søren Holst
Oh, and Naudé, J.A., 'Qumran Hebrew Syntax in the Perspective of a Theory of Language Change and diffusion', JNWSL 26 (2000), pp. 105-32 haven't seen it yet, but it was in the bibliography of a friend's dissertation which arrived in the morning mail 10 minutes ago Soren, Cph For private reply,

SV: orion-list Qumran Hebrew

2002-05-28 Thread Søren Holst
> a conference on Qumran Hebrew held in October 1999 at Ben Gurion > University, Beer Sheva, during which Qimron, Hurvitz, Blau and others > addressed your question. a volume of proceedings appeared last year > published by Brill > that's Diggers at the well : proceedings of the third Internatio

orion-list Wadi ed-Daliyeh photos?

2002-05-28 Thread Søren Holst
Does anyone know of colour photographs of the Wadi Daliyeh site and/or finds, published or otherwise? A Danish periodical is printing a small piece on the Daliyeh papyri (written by my humble self, nothing in it you guys don't know already) to celebrate their publication in DJD, and they want illu

orion-list Qumran Hebrew

2002-05-28 Thread avigdor horovitz
Re Gmyrkin's query- The was a conference on Qumran Hebrew held in October 1999 at Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, during which Qimron, Hurvitz, Blau and others addressed your question. I don't have the full details in front of me, but a volume of proceedings appeared last year published by Bril