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Re: orion Re: Absence of Chanukah in scrolls



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Sounds reasonable. Is the fact that these Qumran tefillin were not that
similar to (later?) rabbinic tefillin pertinent here?

Tim Phillips


-----Original Message-----
From: David Goldman <davic@pop.erols.com>
To: orion@mscc.huji.ac.il <orion@mscc.huji.ac.il>
Date: Monday, January 11, 1999 12:04 PM
Subject: orion Re: Absence of Chanukah in scrolls


>Regarding Stephen Goranson's comments below, I think a pretty
>straightforward explanation is that the sectarians who composed the scrolls
>were "literalists" who rejected rabbinic decrees for festivals and
>observances that did not have a scriptural basis in the Torah. Ironically,
>this raises the question of what tefillin and mezuzahs were doing among
>scrolls written by non-rabbinists. After all, it was the rabbinic tradition
>that told us that totafoth were those little square boxes, etc.....
>
>David Goldman
>davic@erols.com
>
>>Russell Gmirkin has not, in my opinion, presented a plausible
>>argument for absence of Hanukkah, while presuming its observance, in those
>>Qumran texts composed after 163 BCE, even if one accepts his dating of War
>>Scroll (which I have not yet found probable).
>For private reply, e-mail to David Goldman <davic@pop.erols.com>
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