DSS - Qumran archaeology fits in with Thiering chronology and textual analysis?

Cutting edge scholars are aware of the ESSENE Connection to
the family of Jesus. They once walked Qumran and its outposts.

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QUMRAN HAS A HALL NEXT TO THE PANTRY

Dr. De Vaux maintained that the hall outside the Israelite wall was
the monks' refectory. (ref 1)

Yet, Dr. Thiering suggests it was for "the meals of visiting village
pilgrims". (ref 2)

In the second phase of occupation De Vaux states that the system for
flushing the floor was abolished because the floor of the hall was
levelled and the conduit pipe blocked. (ref 3)

BT's interpretation is that ritual washings, which happened in the
first phase after the visits of village Essenes, ceased by the onset
of the
second phase. Let's understand these village Essenes were excluded
from certain areas of Qumran because these married men were unclean
compared to priests and celibate monks.

Her historical reconstruction has a reoccupation of Qumran after
the Earthquake (31 BC) by "seekers-after-smooth-things", who engaged
in "loose living", including sex, by strict Palestinian Essene
standards.
This reoccupation started 11 BC.

The Temple Scroll, dated by her 25-21 BC in its original version,
contains the strict Palestinian Essene standards in that, for example,
a man
who had recently had sexual intercourse could defile a holy area
(11QT
45:11).

Does anybody still think the hall was the monks' refectory? In the
larger picture does Qumran archaeology fit in with Thiering
chronology and textual analysis?

(ref 1) ADSS p. 11
(ref 2) Jesus & The Riddle of The DSS p. 313
(ref 3) ADSS p. 26

With all good wishes,
David Christainsen


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