From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    Martin Edwards wrote:   
      
   > Years ago Norman Golb argued that the Scrolls were not the product of   
   > any one group, but a library originally from Jerusalem and from many   
   > sources.   
      
   I don't know why there's even an "Argument."   
      
   If they're from some fringe religious group, the Essenes, a doomsday   
   cult awaiting the final battle of good vs evil with Rome cast as the   
   evil, how come the whole goddamn culture was exactly like them,   
   rebelling at the drop of a hat?   
      
   I went to an exhibit on Nabataea, for example. Some of the scrolls were   
   Nabataean. They even mentioned a divorce record! Elsewhere I read of   
   one scroll that was a Greek play!   
      
   The written word was valuable. It wasn't something that got thrown   
   away.   
      
   It was a cultural practice.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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