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Sigh, This just goes to show that there is no discussion about Qumran, or the DSS (whether connected or not), that does not quickly devolve into a pissing match. The published experts keep on confidently asserting this or that as facts, even when the evidence is inaccessible. Why does this/these su...

Stephen is correct that there are not a whole lot of reviews of any of Lönnqvist's books. His first one was named Archaeology of the Hidden Qumran: The New Paradigm, 2002, the title of which just comes across as a little weird. However, after a lot of effort, I was able to locate review B354r in an ...

Sigh, This just goes to show that there is no discussion about Qumran, or the DSS (whether connected or not), that does not quickly devolve into a pissing match. The published experts keep on confidently asserting this or that as facts, even when the evidence is inaccessible. Why does this/these sub...

Most photography does not make precise comparison of colors easy. How is that being controlled? I suspect it has not. Stephen is seeing what he wants to see. Now I have to assume that some sort of photographic lighting was used in all these cases. The kinds of lights and their hue can vary consider...

The importance of imposing the Roman coin denominations on the subjects in Romanised areas is clearly illustrated in the Palmyrene tax law ( first and second century AD) discussed below, where Roman denominations are officially insisted upon as accounting units. Nevertheless, the Roman coinage does...

If I am not mistaken, a wild ox (an Auroch) has a prominent ridge across the top of the head with horns that grow out and up from either end of the ridge, but perhaps it is not uncommon to see male wild oxen with a broken horn due to breeding contests with other males, with the remaining one growin...

Evidently this point is reflected in Josephus, too. The old Temple was so corrupted to be considered the place of evil archons of this eon (=the pagan idols). Gosh golly, Giuseppe, This is one of those commonplace "facts" about Judeans and the Judean temple that a lot of folks assume with...

I wonder that a so great expert as you :notworthy: ignores Histories, 5.13 Book 5 is chock full of weird, twisted and highly prejudiced "facts" about Judeans and their beliefs. If he was relying on Josephus here, and this is has been questioned although on the face of it it appears so, Jo...

In all the following cases the Lxx uses the Greek word μονοκέρωτος, noun genitive masculine singular common, from μονοκέρωτος, with but one horn. Apparently the word is used in Plutarch, "A story is told that once on a time the head of a one-horned ram (κριοῦ μονόκερω) was brought to Pericles f...

Could someone provide a reference to where Tacitus says that the Roman gods exited the Judean temple?