Dead Sea Scrolls

Hildegarde · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Birmingham

I was listening to a radio programme about the Scrolls and Qumran yesterday (I think) and they seemed to be saying some people think it wasn't a monastic community but a pottery factory, and what seemed to be ceremonial baths were just for washing the pots in. Is this a generally held view, or was the man from the Beeb just trying to be controversial?

Hildegarde

True54Blue · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 17 Location: Canada

That is definitely not a widely held view. The ceremonial baths may have been used for ritually washing pots along with people but it sounds like the man from Beeb is trying to make a name for himself (even if only as the man from Beeb Smile

Tom

rgoode · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 7:06 am Post subject: Virtual Qumran

Tom's right, there are numerous questions still surrounding the Qumran community, but being a pottery factory generally isn't one of them Very Happy

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Incidently, if you are interested, the UCLA are doing a rather fun and interesting project in constructing a vitual Qumran the link is http://www.nelc.ucla.edu/qumran/. I hadn't realised what an imposing place it is/was!

Richard

Hildegarde · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Birmingham

Thanks, Tom and Richard. That UCLA site is fascinating.

Hildegarde

Quaestor · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 58 Location: Chorleywood UK

On the subject of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it is interesting that the fragment of Micah which they contained lends absolutely no support to Matthew 2; 6. The reading in the Dead Sea Scrolls is as follows. "But you O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of you one shall not come forth to be ruler in Israel".
Dennis

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