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Re: orion Golb on the "'Yahad' Claim"



At 02:20 PM 2/25/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Norman Golb has written a short note entitled "QADMONIOT AND THE "YAHAD"
>CLAIM" and made it available at:
>http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/SCR/Yahad.html

Now here is clear, positive, absolute evidence that the "yahad" reading is
completely impossible.  The letter is clearly not a yod!

Professor Golb has debunked the suggested reading; how can it receive any
support at all?  The only reason one would wish to call the letter a yod is
for tendentious reasons in support of a predetermined theory regarding the
scrolls and the Essenes and their putative connection to the site at Qumran.

Jim



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