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Re: Are 1000 scribes too many? was Re: DSS Scribes
The relevance of the size of the cemetery is relative to the 'normalcy' of the
community life. If the norm was that only young people lived there, while
older ones went to more 'comfortable' lodgings, then the size would not be
relevant. How large was the cemetery in Elephantine?
Thus Moshe Shulnab
Moshe, Read Stegemann. He will explain why people were not very old.
It is not that old people would stay away but that people did not
grew old at all, exept the lucky few. His average estimation of the
age is something like 39 for men and less than 30 for women (you will
have to check for yourself). So he has some intricate calculations
about the turnover at the settlement of residents.
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