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Re: orion WHO SAYS "ESSENES"?

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Michael S. Sanders wrote:
> 
> Stephan Pfann wrote:
> 
> "If the term "ESSENES" doesn't refer to the so-called
> "covenanters from
> Qumran" (for whom we have a significant self-produced
> library [more than
> 50% of the texts found in the caves] and now can identify at
> least 4
> settlements and 4 cemeteries ranging from Jerusalem to the
> Dead Sea,
> confirmed regionally by the map of the Copper Scroll) JUST
> WHERE ARE THE
> LITERARY AND MATERIAL REMAINS OF THIS HISTORICALLY
> SIGNIFICANT GROUP CALLED THE ^ÓESSENES^Ô?"
> 
> For a seeking amateur as myself could someone please
> encapsulate the evidence for the "library" being
> "self-produced" by the "covenanters from Qumran"

    I think this referes to those texts throughout the corpus
that show the same scribal hands.

Jack
-- 
D^Òman dith laych idneh d^ÒnishMA nishMA
   Jack Kilmon (jkilmon@historian.net)    
                                       
                      
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