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Re: DSS Scribes
>On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Asia Lerner wrote:
>> Golb, one of whose ineterests is paleography, analyzes the handwritings
>> and declares the number of different hands to be "in the hundreds." I
>> haven't heard people objecting to this conclusion, even when they clearly
>> objected to the main thrust of Golb's argument.
>For what it's worth, I believe that, in his popular-level book that's
>been republished under more than one title, Allegro also notes that the
>different manuscripts come from different hands, although, as I recall,
>he doesn't give numbers.
I have a problem understanding the problem. Since these scrolls were written
over a period of time, I would expect that there would be many different
handwrittings.
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