Re: Scholar: Essenes never existed!!!

On Mar 16, 9:50 pm, Patty <pajh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 16, 4:57 pm, "levin...@xxxxxxxxx" <levin...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From Time Magazine. Per an Israeli scholar regarding the Dead Sea
Scrolls. Interesting, to say the least.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1885421,00.html?cnn=yes

Jay

Well, I've read Schiffman's work saying that Qumran was not founded by
the Essenes and that the scrolls were collected by dissidents from
Hasmonean society.  He did not say that the Essenes didn't exist.  He
just said they didn't found Qumran and they didn't collect the
scrolls.
(Schiffman, Lawrence, “Origin and Early History of the Qumran Sect”
Biblical Archaeology. Volume 58 Number 1, March 1995 and
Schiffman, Lawrence H. “The Dead Sea Scrolls and the History of
Judaism,” Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 3, Qumran and the
Dead Sea Scrolls: Discoveries, Debates, the Scrolls and the Bible.
(Sep., 2000), pp. 154-159. )

And I read Philo some years ago and don't get me started on the junk
he wrote.

I challenge you. What junk?

Are you familiar with the Jewish Tradition he came from? Have the
tools to evaluate what he wrote? Read Greek?

He was a very intelligent Jew.

Don't get ME statrted on dilletante scholarship.


Make your case or spare us the conclusory dismissals of men who are
too dead to fight back.

Jacko
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