Biblical Hebrew Forum

[goranson AT duke.edu]

Quoting Herman Meester <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>:

> > (Apparently, this list is not the place to discuss this, but before I stop
> doing so:)
> maybe we can agree then, given the acknowledgement that there are definitely
> mss. among the DSS that were *not* written by the "Essenes at Qumran" that
> we should study each individual manuscript as if it has nothing to do with
> Essenes, Qumran, etc.? This way, it doesn't really matter who was where and
> when - let the texts speak for themselves, without attributing them to any
> specific group. Seems to me to be the healthiest approach.
> regards,
> Herman


Dear Herman,
It depends, in part: do you also read "each individual manuscript as if it had
nothing to do with," say, Sadducees, Pharisees, Jerusalem, Damascus, Josephus,
and so on?
all the best,
Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson