The Dead Sea Scrolls The Controversy Continues And Continues

A group (or a person; communicate is no way of experienced who is prose the posts) called "We Urge A Lightweight Arithmetical Demonstrate" on January 12, 2007 posted the subsequent to keep a note to my post on "The Complete Sea Scrolls: The Controversy Continues":The San Diego Familiar Top Museum's impending Complete Sea Scrolls enclose has now moreover come under skin. At lowest amount two blogs transmit now published a memo from Dr. Risa Levitt Kohn, a educator of saintly studies who is curating the enclose. For facts and associates, see http://pacific-science-scrolls-scandal.blogspot.com/. In her memo, Dr. Kohn denies allegations that the enclose is "partial" and "dissimilar". As Dr. Mariottini explains, Scrolls bestow is at this instant polarized during two contrary groups, one holding that they were in black and white by a categorize living at Qumran, the other holding that no categorize lived at Qumran and that the Scrolls are the rest of the libraries of Jerusalem. This divergence is confirmed by the Cambridge Top of Judaism, which spirit two nature articles presenting each of these two theories. In her memo defensive the proposed enclose, Dr. Kohn admits that not a make a note foe of the Qumran-Essene deduction -- not even the trendsetter of the endorsed Israel Antiquities Charge archaeological group that has all-inclusive, once upon a time ten animation of excavations, that Qumran was a pottery factory and that the Scrolls came from Jerusalem -- has been invited to think in the Museum's category series (featuring 22 speakers), but she attempts to give reasons for this decision by referring to the "one of the literati harmony" on Scroll beginning. It is disorderly to playground this affirmation of "harmony" with the picture unfilled in compound intelligence accounts and the Cambridge Top of Judaism. If Dr. Kohn has set out to keep the old Essene deduction in the front of rising one of the literati cynicism with it, why doesn't she dead on own up that the enclose is for certain partial and dissimilar, instead of arguing herself during an absurd situation?In a greeting to a tone posted to one of the entries, the playwright (or authors) of the blog defines the advantage question mark of the controversy:"The features of the repayment at Qumran is the gratify of a brainy fancied dispute. The Tidied up Carry... is that the repayment was built-up by Essene monks who observed handy rules of ritual virtuousness and celibacy and who wrote heaps of the Complete Sea Scrolls. The Minute Educational says the state living at Qumran were farmers, potters or mass, and had nonentity to do with the Essenes. The scrolls, according to this view, were In black and white IN JERUSALEM and stashed in caves at Qumran by Jewish refugees fleeing the Roman suppression of the city in the cap century."For populace quick in the Complete Sea Scrolls and the fight whether the Scrolls are akin to the Essenes or to a sequential group, break The Complete Sea Scrolls in Seattle and San DiegoThis blog makes an come near to at proving that the enclose of the Complete Sea Scrolls at the Pacific Science Nucleus in Seattle, Washington, was partial in the function of it unseen new developments in Scroll dig ready in last-ditch animation. In addendum, this blog claims that the enclose at the San Diego Familiar Top Museum is moreover partial in the function of it is a fake of the enclose not on in Seattle.Claude MariottiniTeacher of Old TombstoneNorthern Baptist UniversityTag: Complete Sea Scrolls, Qumran, Essenes