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Re: orion Isaiah scroll

To: harrison <BRADLEY.HARRISON@student.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Re: orion Isaiah scroll
From: Jim West <jwest@highland.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 09:55:20 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: orion@panda.mscc.huji.ac.il

Brad,
At 01:16 PM 8/28/97 -0700, you wrote

>     This scribal problem is very much more a Gnostic one to me. A Gnostic
>scribe? 
>     
>
>Harrison

In the swirling mass of philosophical and theological currents that comprise
1st c. Judaism we cannot discount gnostic influence as a contributing
stream.  Even at Qumran.  But, separating the streams when they have
intermingled is extraordinarily difficult.  What may have originally been a
gnostic idea very well could have become a Jewish idea through adoption.
So, when we discuss the provenance of scrolls we have to keep in mid the
pluralism of even an apparently isolated sect.


Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible, Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest@highland.net

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