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Re: Walls not a fortress make
David,
As Jim West put it, Romans hardly liked anything Jewish at that time
and moment. And soldiers forced to fight down at the dead sea in the
summer of 86 (if Stegemann and other people are right) would hardly
have been kind to anybody around ... so if the texts were
deliberately destroyed, you hardly have to look for a conscious
ideology behind - only hatred and frustration. That's how soldiers
behave ... belive me, I have been it for more than 25 years and have
seen a lot of wanton destruction even in peacetime (we haven't faught
many wars recently).
NPL
Niels Peter Lemche
Dep. Biblical Studies
University of Copenhagen
Phone: 45 49 13 81 24
Fax: 45 49 13 81 28
e-mail: npl@teol.ku.dk