Thanks for your response, Joe.
You wrote:
>As for your query, the presence of the east-woman
>burial in the cemetery does not in my opinion present
>any problems as there are def. women in the cemetery,
>however all of the woman there like the males are
>buried north-south as in Qumran which is
Dear Ian
I once tried in vain to find Bar-Adon's field notes
in the IAA which may have shed light on the cemetery
of Ain el-ghuweir however there were no where to be
found.
As for your query, the presence of the east-woman
burial in the cemetery does not in my opinion present
any problems as th
Joe,
Further reading fo the el-Ghuweir cemetery indicates that Bar-Adon was neither able
to justify the presence of the one east-west tomb, #15, nor could he explain it away
as a Bedouin burial. There is an interesting comment about the Bedouin: they "are
expert in differentiating, according
Dear Jack,
I have always thought that -while defilement by a corpse certainly IS a problem
in Jewish law- the obligation to bury a dead person always has priority over
purity concerns. Purity certainly can be regained ritually, leaving a corpse
unburied would be an offense (Tobit 2:3-8; only
Something occurred to me while discussing the historicity of the tomb burial
of Jesus on another list. The issue was the timing and purity issue of
removing a corpse to a place of entombment near or on sabbath or a festival
like Pesach without defiling oneself. It occurred to me that non-Jews c
