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Re: Golb's Theory
On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Jim West wrote:
> At 06:38 PM 9/5/96 +0300, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Golb does treat the presence of women and children as unproblematic for the
> >"fort" theory, but then, aren't the strictly gender-segregated military
> >camps and invention of 19th century? Wifes and camp-followers do not
> >sound all than unusual in the days of old.
> >
>
> Is it a 19th century invention? What evidence is there that women and
> children followed their soldier husbands/fathers around in the first century
> BCE or CE?
>
Well, look at Massada. The situation that Golb envisions for Q is very
much like Massada - people holed up for a "last stand" battle.
Best, Asia