RELIGST 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Josephus, Qumran Caves
WOMEN AND QUMRAN
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Assignment #3
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APick an artifact + explain now it sheds light on a Biblical passage
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fresco , construction ,
statue ,jewelry ,tomb
Khirbet Qumran What Is Qumran ?
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11 cares were disc covered between 1948 -1956
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Muhammed Ahmed el -Hamid Ithe wolf )found
Cave I
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Last
Cave ,care 12
,was found last Febuam ,but
then were no scrolls
who Lived There ?
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Oven ,pottery fragments
°profiles of the caves vary
Elsh Fekhka •
stylus + inkwell
• some were Inhabited .
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. can there be
Personal scripts ?•
Oas ,, in the middle of
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Pool to remove impurities
Difficult to
9. + to
the desert explained ritualistically 13 of them )
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how the community
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Piles of rocks =Qumran cemeteries
Libra #lvpapbn
may have survived for the Poor
t artifacts •
Rock cut tombs =for the rich
Josephus Flavius
Philo of Alexandria Pliny the Elder
• 4000 men who don't marry MHJ
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Palestine + Syria = most populous nation of or keep lehehts
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Elsenes live apart from the world
the Jews inhabits
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They minister to one another
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No women , no money ,no sexual
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Este has
14000
of them )
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Appoint stewards to regeve desires
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Above all men
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not sacrificing living their income
Connection Between the
animals ,but studying to preserve
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of great number community + the Manuscripts
hohneis +purity
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•Texts copied at Qumran
Qumran caves
•Texts brought to Qumran
what do we know About Qumran ?• yo,
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11,0
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Archaeology of Qumran
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100 BCE -68 CE
= settlement
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Qumran manuscripts
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scrolls :3rd cent . BCE 68 CE