Follow-up of Thiering Thesis/Pesher with Jodi Magness, Hanan Eshel, Magen Broshi
crunch
By Douglas R. Edwards
Please click CONTENTS at top for -
Why scroll jars? page 147 Jodi Magness
The contention of twelve theories / page 162 / Hanan Eshel, Magen
Broshi
(Qumran as an Essene Monastery)
Please study in close detail and comment
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The two historical layers of Pesher Habakkuk
by Hanan Eshel
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=18087657
"Abstract
Two separate layers of historical commentary may be discerned in
Pesher Habakkuk (IQpHab): one layer reflecting the second century
B.C.E., and dealing primarily with the Teacher of Righteousness; the
other relating to the Kittim who, in this Pesher, should be identified
with the Romans. It appears that the later layer was composed after
the conquest of Judea by Pompey in 63 B.C.E. According to this
assumption, columns II: 10 - IV: 13 and V:12 - VI: 12 are commentaries
that were added to Pesher Habakkuk in the first century B.C.E. In
addition, it would appear that a further section of Pesher Habakkuk -
column IX: 3-7 - was brought up to date at the same time."
Please note scholar Hanan Eshel's confusion
over dating within IQpHab -
First, the Teacher of Righteousness lived in 1st
century AD because:
The Pesharim 1. Pesher on Psalms, 4Q171
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qumran_origin/message/5577
"This is the famous one which can be shown to have turned the tide for
carbondating. As argued in our joint publication and in entries here,
it is
proof that the Teacher of Righteousness was still alive on the 1st
century AD.
He is still living at the time of writing, and is the subjectof the
writer's
distress. According to the 1995 Tucson carbondating test, the material
on which
it was written was not manufactured until AD 29-81, and it is not a
copy of an
earlier work, for all the pesharim are originals. The only way out of
this is to
prove that the document was contaminated, as Greg Doudna tried to do.
His claim
was attacked by I. Carmi, who upheld the 1995 test. You can follow all
this in
previous entries here, see the Index to my entries under
Carbondating."
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The Pesharim 3. The pesher on Habakkuk (1QpHab)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qumran_origin/message/5582
"The pesher on Habakkuk was composed and written down, in a scribal
hand of the
middle Herodian period, AD 20- 50. An older piece of parchment,
carbondated 88-2
BC, was all that was available to them in their haste, but this was no
problem,
since they valued older writing material as having venerable
authority."
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Answers to Stephen Goranson
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qumran_origin/message/4340
"You have not dealt with one of my three questions, that the hand of
1QpHab is
middle Herodian formal (20-50 AD), as given in the recent official
publication
DJD 23, p.364."
Sir David
> Religion and society in Roman Palestine: old questions, new approaches
Because scrolls are your hobbyhorse, of course, of course.
