What are some of the most significant books dealing with the question of
women at Qumran?
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies,
Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
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phus was unacquainted with Essenes? He says they live
in every town, he claims to be trained by them, he knows individual
Essenes.
Or do you think he let falsehoods about Essenes stand because they were
in his source, even though he knew they were wrong? (I think this is
Bergmeier's position
it as Achaea, that
is, Greece. Other suggested identifications are with the Aegean islands,
Peloponnesus, and Macedonia (Borst [1957:123]). On the various theories
as to the identification of the Kittim see Braverman (1978:117-18) and
Baker (1992:4:93)."
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A.
s not his main audience."
I have conceded that Josephus imagined some Jews might encounter his
work (AJ 4.197). But this possible Jewish audience did not guide the
content, style, or arrangement of his work, even in his retelling of the
Daniel story. There he is apologizing for not making
ly acknowledged to be an appendix to Antiquities,
dedicated to Epaphroditus (AJ 1.8-9).
Life 430 reads, "Having repaid you, Epaphroditus, most excellent of men,
the entire record of the Antiquities up to the present, I conclude the
narrative here" (Mason's translation).
The audience
LEON.
Is he not expressing a balance between being Judeans/Jews and being a
tight-knit group?
He is trying to anticipate or correct the misconception that their
relative closeness implies a repudiation of their Jewishness or of all
other Jews, is he not?
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College
ephus
in this category.
Nor was Josephus writing for any "public".
To return to your original question, Josephus's audience consists of
Greek-speaking Roman elite Jewish-sympathizers, and therefore the
question of whether the Essenes were Jews/Judeans, if it had occurred at
all (
ews."
Why posit a source other than Josephus himself? BJ itself was intended
for a non-Jewish audience.
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies, Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For private r
ews."
Why posit a source other than Josephus himself? BJ itself was intended
for a non-Jewish audience.
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Regent College), M.A. (McMaster)
Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies, Biblical Field (Early Judaism major)
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For private r
y-marking at two levels: they are
Jewish/Judeans, yes, but they also show a particular loyalty to those of
their own philosophy. Their loyalty is on two levels: ethnic and
doctrinal.
Josephus in BJ 2.119 wants to say the Essenes stick together, without
implying that they consider themselves n
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