Subject: Re: FW: Re[8]: Methods in biblical scholarship
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 15:20:35 -0500
At 09:01 PM 12/29/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>At 10.56 29/12/99 -0500, Moshe Shulman wrote:
>>The DSS are filled with tirades against the
>>temple as it was. They seemed to be independant of the temple.
>If you put it in context, it would help. You'll find strong defences of the
>temple in the DSS. The tirades are never against the temple, but against
>the people who were in control of it at one stage. There are a few well
The point I am making is that they were able to exist without the temple,
because they saw it as 'unusable'. The post destruction period would be no
different.