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Re: DSS Course
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Jim,
Where is one to turn for the most up to date theories?
It will be hard to find "up to date" theories as the texts have not that
long ago been liberated from the Christian monopoly that propagated the
monastery theory.
Ian Hutchesson
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If I may interject, while I also remain somewhat grumpy about the long
suppression (as I see it) of the Dead Sea Scrolls under the Christian
monopoly, still neither the original archaeologist who advanced the
monastery idea, nor the two most recent advocates (Broshi and Eshel) are
Christians. I remain puzzled (and undecided), first at *whether* the
monastery idea is as implausible as many scholars represent (none of the
arguments seem compelling yet), and secondly, what it would mean if the
strict halakhically Torah-observant (distinctively *un*-Christian) Qumran
sect were monastic.
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Yirmiyahu Ben-David, Pakiyd 16
K'hiylat Ha-N'tzarim
(World-wide Congregation of Nazarene / Nazorean Jews)
N'tzarim Virtual Community Center in
Ra'anana, Israel at
www.netvision.net.il/~netzarim
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