[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: orion Jars and 1a & 1b dates
According to Dunnlaw:
>
> Sigrid Peterson observes that "the significance of the 9/8 bce gap in
> habitation goes past me, . . . ."
>
[...]
> To get back to a question asked yesterday and not discussed: Is this jar in
> the floor something like a wall safe? I ask because of the discussion of
Please review the early posts on this topic. The so-called "scroll jars" are
unusual wide-mouthed jars. Sunken jars, whether the cylindrical "scroll jars" or
the common "bag"-type jar, did not necessarily contain scrolls. They usually
contained food.
[...]
> again, maybe it wasn't a hidding place at all. Are there other sites where
> similar jars in the floor have been found?
Yes, there are a number of buried jars at Qumran.
>
> I'm not so sure that
> Herod took time out to knock down Q.
It is not that Herod himself would take off after Qumran, or a group there, it is
rather that Herod had created a lot of doubt about the succession, and as he lay
dying there was a lot of spirited, armed, quasi-military jockeying for the
leadership position. This could have involved the buildings or people at Qumran,
or not.
> Mark Dunn
>
All the best,
Sigrid Peterson UPenn petersig@ccat.sas.upenn.edu