tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post113981970648914947..comments2024-03-14T08:15:15.207-07:00Comments on CADRE Comments: Is Richard Carrier Wrong about the Qumran Community?BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01967809861892681780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-1139961551411665092006-02-14T15:59:00.000-08:002006-02-14T15:59:00.000-08:00I think most scholars recognize that some of the d...I think most scholars recognize that some of the documents in the Qumran collection were not produced by that community. Nothing in the identification of the Qumran Community as an Essenic one, to my knowledge, rests on the identification of such documents. <BR/><BR/>I do not disagree with the notion that first century Judaism was more diverse then previously thought, but Mr. Carrier's Laymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761410435140602771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-1139917345157992412006-02-14T03:42:00.000-08:002006-02-14T03:42:00.000-08:00We know so little about the alledged "Qumran commu...We know so little about the alledged "Qumran community" we don't even know if it existed. The earliest archaeologist to work on it was a preist, and he read Christian monasticism into everything he saw.. What may have been a perfume factory became a 'scrollery' it was too tempting to imagine that the scrolls found near by were copied in that room which seems to had desks (or where they work Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.com