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Re: Calendar, MMT
On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:36:28 -0800 Moshe Shulman wrote:
Actually, I've lost track of who said what. I think Ian wrote:
>>The key question is one of evidence: what is the evidence
>>that MMT is sectarian and not composed by priests in power
>>in Jerusalem? So ends this heretical reading of MMT.
>>But is it so heretical? Q and S say at one point:
>> "MMT implies that the 'we' group regularly
>> administered the Jerusalem temple" (p. 121)
I understood this quotation from Qimron to be phrased ambiguously and to
mean: "MMT implies that the 'we' group [*ONCE*] regularly administered
the Jerusalem Temple" which, of course, is so obvious as not to require
further explanation. In not supplying an otherwise obviously needed
explanation I reasoned that this was Qimron's meaning. Perhaps he and/
or Schiffman could clarify?
While I buy the date for MMT Qimron gives on the same page ("probably
between 159 - 152 BCE"), I still think CD is even earlier (Khonyo III, a
generation earlier), and, while a later dating for CD is more popular, I
think the later date for CD is suspended from speculation about the
identity of the Moreh Tzeddek. Thus, I still see CD antedating MMT as
plausible. Reasonable?
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09:12:37 Y'rushalayim Time, 11/19/96
Yirmiyahu Ben-David, Paqiyd 16; Ra'anana, Israel
Q'hiylat Ha-N'tzarim
(Global Congregation of Nazarene Jews)
N'tzarim Virtual Community Center:
www.netvision.net.il/~netzarim
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