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orion-list Re: Golb on 63 BCE, single period deposit
Why is it assumed that the Dead Sea Scrolls were a single
period deposit? One cave had been worked on to supply
shelving or hanging baskets. this does not suggest a hasty
deposit. Plus there were several caves with material from
various dates, including Arabic material and some similar
Simaritan deposits just to the north dating from the
Persian Period. And on top of all that we find DSS in a
gennezah(sp?)in Egypt.
What is the evidence that the DSS are a single period
deposit, let alone a hasty single period deposit.
Certainly I agree that some were deposited in the Roman
period, but not them all. Rather I suspect that a gennizah
style tradition already existed in the area and materials
were being deposited in the caves in various times,
including times of trouble trouble. Possibly ranging from
the Persian Period to the Roman and possibly the Arabic
periods.
I have found nothing to suggest that all the DSS are a
single period hasty deposit.
The real question should be which scrolls were deposited
when and in what caves. Was it in haste, waste, or storage.
yours
Bradley Harrison
MSc Arch. Computing
U. Southampton
For private reply, e-mail to blh198 <blh198@soton.ac.uk>
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