Helps answer questions about Essenes community at Qumran
LOS ANGELES, June 19 /Standard Newswire/ -- The mysterious archaeological ruins located paces from where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered 60 years ago served first as a fortress before being adopted by a Jewish religious sect, two UCLA researchers contend.
"Qumran was established originally as a fortress, just as the archaeological evidence shows, and then it was abandoned," said Robert R. Cargill, a UCLA graduate student in Near Eastern Culture and Languages. "It was later resettled by the Essenes, an early Jewish religious community that came from Jerusalem, bringing with them the scrolls and continuing to copy and compose new scrolls." (Full Story)
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
3-D Computer Model Sheds Light on Dead Sea Scrolls Site
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Here is another sensationalist article about claims being made by Dr. Schniedewind, who (1) has inappropriately allowed a press release (on which this article is based) to be circulated giving the impression that he and/or his student Robert Cargill have "found evidence" that Qumran was originally a fortress, when this fact was established several years ago by leading Israeli archaeologists who didn't need a 3-D computer model to do their work, and (2) nowhere frankly acknowledges that these same archaeologists, having reexamined Qumran for over a decade, were unable--as they frankly admitted--to find even a shred of evidence that the place was EVER inhabited by any sort of religious group, or that any writing or copying of scrolls EVER took place there. See my two pieces on this at http://www.nowpublic.com/warriors_occupied_qumran_scrolls_battle_continues#comment-26026
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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/557126
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