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  From: smalling@connect.net
  Subject: The Mice and the Elephant 
  Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:03:49 -0600 
  To: orion@mscc.huji.il


> Orion Listers,
> 
> When I read the arguments concerning the 
writers/authors 
> of some/all of the material found in the caves near K. 
> Qumran (or, for that matter, the occupants of K.Q.), I 
> think of the folk story (IE) of the mice and the 
> elephant. Like the mice, each researcher has a 
different 
> view of the elephant - Sadducean, Pharisaic, Essenic, 
> Zealot, rabbinic, Nazarite, etc.
> 
> At this time, there does not seem to be enough evidence 

> for anything more than conjecture. Have the "recent"  
> Sinai or the West Bank digs yielded anything that might 

> shed light on the "big" questions?
> 
> 
> Elmer Smalling III 
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> 
> Date: 01/29/96
> Time: 14:47:25
> 
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Name: Elmer E. Smalling III
Jenel Systems and Design International, Inc.
Plano, Texas USA
Phone/Fax 972-491-1442       
minus 0700 GMT
HOME PAGE = http://www.connect.net/smalling

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Date: 01/29/96
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