Dear Ian
I think that you have overreacted in suggesting that out of hand I rejected
the findings of the Germans and that of Steckoll. The latter I reject out of
hand for reasons which I state in my paper as well as having actually seen
the skeletal material. The data as well as conclusions are s
Dear Joe Zias,
Not to be a bother, but I recently reread your article "The Cemeteries of
Qumran and Celibacy" in DSD 7, and I had some follow-up queries. First, if I
understand the diagram in Figure 1 from Humbert and Chabon, and read de Vaux
correctly, the graves in the southern cemetery
Dear Joe Zias,
Thanks for your comments.
I agree that Golb's idea of Qumran as fortress with military cemetery is
dead, but I don't think Hirschfeld's analysis of the site of Qumran can
be easily dismissed (although his proposal of Essenes above En Gedi appears
incorrect). The low
Dear Russell,
Shalom, thanks for the sentiments regarding my paper on the cemetery. As
for your comments on Hirschfeld's attempt to portray the site as a manor
house, from information that I have heard here, few archaeologists accept
his theory on
archaeological grounds. The site is one of the m
