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  • From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>
  • To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Paul the Persecutor
  • Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 13:03:53 -0500


Jack Kilmon wrote:

> Chris Cutler wrote:
> > My suggestion was roundly dismissed by James Harding in his reply (31
> > March):
> >
> > "The possibilities outlined below by Chris Cutler have I think been
> > suggested before, and fairly univerally dismissed. It would be
> > difficult to maintain that Damascus was a standard cognomen for
> > Qumran, since it is only characteristic of the D corpus of material..."
>
> The issue, imo, is that it *is* characteristic of the "D corpus"
> of texts. My reading of CD (6:5-19; 7:18-20; 8:21; 8:35) makes
> me see "The Land of Damascus" as the "Region of the New Covenant"
> which could have meant not only Qumran...if indeed Qumran was an
> Essene settlement....but the entire area of the West coast of the
> Dead Sea.

Jack,

Your message is a bit puzzling. It seems to be an assertion *against* James
Harding's
claim about the characteristics of the D material. But isn't what you say and
what
Harding claims exactly the same thing? Or am I missing something here?.

Yours,

Jeffrey
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