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orion dating; Essenes; a priori
-> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 15:50:51 +0000
-> From: Stephen Goranson <goranson@acpub.duke.edu>
Maybe one big batch (still partly-extant), of whatever dates,
-> came from the "land of Damascus," or Jerusalem, at a given date. Maybe
-> Qumran production had its ups and downs. The survival of texts as well
-> as the rate of texts sent or taken away earlier may be uneven. Etc.
-> In my opinion, it is not those who have *arrived* at the conclusion
-> that some Qumran texts and the site Kh. Qumran/Ein Feshkha are Essene
> In context, from my perspective, the AMS information has added, among
-> other things, confirming circumstantial evidence to what I already knew:
-> the Qumran ms collection is Essene. Historians who refuse to deal with
-> Essenes, in my view, limit the possibilities in their accounts of Qumran
-> history.
-> Stephen Goranson goranson@duke.edu
What keeps the DSS from being other than Essene?
Why can some at least not be from other sources?
Couldn't Qumran have been a depository or repository for scrolls from
other Jewish sources?
There are varying views within this discussion group I see.
Dale M. Cannon
dale.cannon@bbs.nightowl.net