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  • From: Stephen Goranson <goranson AT duke.edu>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] some Qumran news
  • Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 08:56:36 -0400

1) Y. Magen and Y. Peleg proposed that Qumran was a pottery export site and
said clay in pool 71 was used. Samples of that clay have now been analysed,
and they do not match tested Qumran pottery. "This information goes straight
against" the Magen Peleg proposal, according to scientists J. Gunneweg and M.
Balla in Holistic Qumran: Trans-Disciplinary Research of Qumran and the Dead
Sea Scrolls (Leiden, 2010) 39-61, quote on p. 49.

2) If The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History vol. 1 1947-1960 (Weston Fields;
Leiden, 2009) is correct, then numerous purchased mss may possibly be
incorrectly assigned, i.e., have incorrect cave designations. If that is
true, among the consequences:
a) Some fragments published in DJD XXXIII as unidentified Cave 4 fragments
may possibly belong with mss from other caves.
and
b) Further caution might be called for toward various multiple cave origin
proposals.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson


  • [b-hebrew] some Qumran news, Stephen Goranson, 05/02/2010

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