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[Gene Gardner <g_gardner1234 AT yahoo.com>]

Could anyone on the list give me a linguistic breakdown of the name Qumran?
 
 Thank you
 
 Gene Gardner
 
                
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Subject: [b-hebrew] QHN - Reeds & Hemp
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Yitzhak & al.

You asked -  *I am curious as to the source of the information for the claims

regarding the resin of Cannabis*.  My response is that I have personnally 
seen 

and handled both the cannabis plant and the resin.   It is not very different 
from 

other vegtable oils.  It is not with any odor but nothing remarkable.  The 
plant is 

very fiberous (as you might expect given the source of rope) but not stiff 
like 

cane.  You can see the Cannabis plant at this link.

http://www.dipbot.unict.it/orto/1037-1.html

Cane actually refers not to a particular plant (except perhaps for sugar 
cane)  but 

rather to the flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.  Since

rattan and bamboo are not found in the ANE, cane would only refer to woody 

reeds.  Here is a link to images of the Giant Reed, Arundo donax.  Let me say 
I 

have personally handled Arundo donax and it is quite different from hemp.  It 
is 

hard, stiff, and woody.  It is not at all resinous or oily.  Hemp, while not 
flaccid, is 

very flexible.

http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs/arundona.html

Keeping this on-list, the key point is that in most of the references to QHN 
in the 

Tanakh are to something hard and stiff, very much like the stem of Arundona 

donax.  A balance beam (Isaiah), a bone (Job), or a candle stickholder 
(Exodus) 

would need hard, stiff materials, consistent with a woody reed not a flexible 

plant like hemp.

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Jack Tladatsi