OPEN LETTER appeal to Peter Alaca / Tom McDonald based on their love of honest archaeology



None but the village idiot would pick De Vaux's Qumran stone
disk - Locus 45, object 1229: "disque de pierre" to troll about.

* My own interest in the artefact is not as a narrow specialist.
Instead, a hypothesis may be formed for wider implications ---

a) Qumran was Essene between c. 200 BC and 68 AD.

b) The family of Jesus (Heli, Joseph, Mary, James, Jude etc.)
were Essene and once walked the Qumran site.

c) The NT mentions Qumran and its outposts by its own
consistent terminology.

REFERENCE
Dr. Thiering's scholarly work
http://www.pesherofchrist.infinitesoulutions.com/

David Christainsen
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Relevant Pages

  • DSS - Qumran archaeology fits in with Thiering chronology and textual analysis?
    ... They once walked Qumran and its outposts. ... QUMRAN HAS A HALL NEXT TO THE PANTRY ... (ref 1) ... in "loose living", including sex, by strict Palestinian Essene ...
    (soc.religion.quaker)
  • Re: Christian Origins and Archaeology
    ... Still don't care, still not archaeology. ... that Qumran was an Essene settlement. ... The scrolls were found in a series of caves just to the west of the ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: Ancient latrine fuels debate at Qumran
    ... Calendar for Interpreting Essene Chronology and Eschatology". ... Qumran 10,1980, 167-202) established the fact that the jubilees in the ... Page 168 of Thiering's 1992 book lays out the Essene scheme of World ... archaeology will tell you about Qumran. ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: Ancient latrine fuels debate at Qumran
    ... Calendar for Interpreting Essene Chronology and Eschatology". ... Qumran 10,1980, 167-202) established the fact that the jubilees in the ... Page 168 of Thiering's 1992 book lays out the Essene scheme of World ... archaeology will tell you about Qumran. ...
    (sci.archaeology)
  • Re: Ancient latrine fuels debate at Qumran
    ... that Qumran ... was Essene, based mostly on textual analysis of DSS. ... I respect the arguments of Jodi Magness. ... "The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Jodi Magness, ...
    (sci.archaeology)