History Forum / General / Archaeology / September 2007

Qumran - The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls
http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded%5FGalor/Katharina%5FGalor/Conference/

Pictures
    I see animation, rapt attention, seriousness, and affection in
their faces.

Theme
    the scrolls were mostly explained by historians of religion

Program
    conference schedule with famous names

Abstracts
     Rachel Bar Nathan
     Mireille Bélis
     Joan Branham
     Magen Broshi and Hanan Eshel
     Gregory Doudna
     Hanan Eshel
     Richard Freund
     Katharina Galor
     Jan Gunneweg
     Yizhar Hirschfeld
     Jean-Baptiste Humbert
     Minna Lonnqvist and Kenneth Lonnqvist
     Yizhak Magen and Yuval Peleg
     Jodi Magness
     Stephen Pfann
     Konstantinos D. Politis
     Edward J. Rhodes, Aryeh E. Shimron and Richard Hoptroff
     Olav Röhrer-Ertl
     Susan Guise Sheridan
     James F. Strange
     Aryeh Shimron
     James D. Tabor
     Joan Taylor
     Jürgen Zangenberg

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I detest the polemic, arbitrary off-topic declarations, and vulgar
language in all 3 NGs the past month concerning my posts
on Qumran Studies and Christian Origins.  Please stop.

Backed up by scholarly references, I made the strong case -
a) The Qumran "stone disk", listed in De Vaux's notes, was a
sundial, used by Essenes, later converted into an odometer.

b) "All the pesharim belong together, reflecting the presence
of the Teacher of Righteousness. Only one edition of each of
them, some 18 in all, was found in the caves. This fact, with
the fact that they are an ephemeral kind of literature, means
that it cannot be maintained that they were composed at an
earlier period and that those found in the caves are copies of
earlier compositions."

c) "The radiocarbon dating of the relevant group of sectarian
documents within the Dead Sea Scrolls, when correlated
with paleograohy and the contents of the documents, allows
the possibility that the Teacher of Righteousness lived and
died during the period of the foundation of Christianity. This
conclusion is contrary to a view now commonly held, that
the radiocarbon datings have disproved a Christian connection."

d) 2 figures within a small subset of DSS - identification of
John the Baptist as Teacher of Righeousness and Jesus
Christ as Wicked Priest.

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I will entertain sincere questions and give full answers
to establish the Thiering Case once and for all.

Regards,
David Christainsen
Newton, Mass USA