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In response to Irv Diamond, the quotation you cite is from
a University of Arizona press release dated April 11, 1995.
The radiocarbon measurement on 1QpHabakkuk by current
calibration gives a two sigma date range (95% confidence)
of anywhere between 160-148 BCE or 111 BCE to 2 CE.
Barbara Thiering and Gordon Rodley have an article scheduled
for the coming issue of _Radiocarbon_ in which they address
the radiocarbon data and argue for 1st century CE datings of
composition for the key Yachad-related Qumran texts. In the
same battery that dated 1QpHab, the Tucson lab also
reported a radiocarbon measurement for 4QpPsA which
by current calibration gives a two-sigma date range (95%
confidence) of anywhere between 3-126 CE. In Thiering's
1979 book Thiering cited Cross on Roman period dates of
composition for the pesharim and also cited Cross on the
pesharim being autograph copies. Furthermore, Thiering argued
in 1979 that the verb tenses of 4QpPsA, if read in their
most natural reading, portray a Teacher of Righteousness
who is living and contemporary at the time that text was
composed.
Greg Doudna
Copenhagen
For private reply, e-mail to Greg Doudna <gd@teol.ku.dk>
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