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"Essenes wrote Dead Sea Scrolls?"
I was surprised to see Slate's deputy editor David Plotz asserting as fact (rather than a hotly disputed topic of controversy) that ''Essenes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls.'' As is now well known, an entire series of major historians and archaeologists have concluded that Khirbet Qumran was never inhabited by any sect, that the scrolls are the ...
Posted to The Chat Room by View from Here on February 24, 2008
Greek translations and Essenes at Qumran
A correction to ''Digging the Bible: The Weirdo Cult that Saved the Bible.'' It is mistaken to write ''There are Greek translations of the Bible that date from the fourth century A.D., several hundred years after the scrolls'' because there are earlier examples. In fact, the Scrolls from Qumran caves as well as other sites near the Dead Sea ...
Posted to Well-Traveled by couperin on January 17, 2008