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Re: Rechabites




Has anyone suggested, and offered evidence, that the Rachabites (of course I
mean their descendents) were the founders of the Qumran sect?

Thanks,


Jim


That would be the day!

The Rechabites are mentioned in Jeremiah, in a chapter in Dtr style 
(if not Dtr itself) as something  around  in the 6th century. Without 
going into a debate of tghe actual age of the chapter in Jeremiah, 
there is quite a distance from the 6th to the 2nd cent. BCE. So we 
need more than a casual resemblance.

NPL
Niels Peter Lemche
Dep. Biblical Studies
University of Copenhagen
Phone: 45 49 13 81 24
Fax: 45 49 13 81 28
e-mail: npl@teol.ku.dk