Latrines of the Essenes?

The New York Times ^ | November 14, 2006 | By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

[MeanWestTexan]

"one of his colleagues specializes in fossillized...um...the end result of what people ate. It's a recognized specialty."

A coprologist.

[George W. Bush]

I didn't know that was controversial - I thought it was pretty well accepted fact.

Me too.

[SunkenCiv]

nyah, nyah. ;') Thanks for the ping.

Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
EurekAlert / University of North Carolina at Charlotte | November 13, 2006 | James Hathaway
Posted on 11/14/2006 3:20:10 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1738210/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[SouthTexas]

Fighting? and they're still doing that too. :)

[SouthTexas]

I laughed, but it's really not funny is it?

[MeanWestTexan]

In some follow up, I'm not at all sure the Essenes kept Kosher, or at least Kosher in the way we think of it today. I really don't know anything about them.

Also, there is a current school of though that a fair number of the Rabbinical Kosher requirements were developed out of the "I might be accidently sinning" school of thought. (The most common argument being related to milk/meat -- although I am not sure I buy that, as I think it has more to do with deeper thought as to the basis for the requirements.)

Anyway, according to this school of thought, what-we-think-of-today as kosher developed more as the Romans crushed and occupied Israel --- kind of a response to "why is this happening to us."

That said, pork would have been always off the list, which is high on the IP culprits.

And washing hands before you eat would have been on the list, too.

[Tax-chick]

No, it isn't ... especially since my tax dollars pay this guy's salary :-).

[GladesGuru]

"What I got a kick out of was this guy used to love to say, "It may be sh*t to you but it's my bread and butter.""

Considered not eating there? ;-)

[Cap Huff]

LOL! (But guys under 50 should be allowed to laugh!)

[SouthTexas]

Yeah. :(

[Tamar1973]

Archaeologists, it seems, will dig anything, even latrines.

'

What an incredible smell you’ve discovered!

[aculeus]

Two of the scrolls refer to a requirement that latrines be “northwest of the city” and “not visible from the city.” The Qumran latrine, some 1,000 yards away, seemed to comply.

Oxtering challenge ping.

[raffa105]

See the blog http://pacific-science-scrolls-scandal.blogspot.com/
and scroll down for information on the steadily growing number of opponents of the Essene theory.

[raffa105]

Yes, the "Essene latrine" claim a stretch (the material can't be dated and a toilet has already been dug up within Qumran which makes the Essenic feces argument completely arbitrary).
In fact, it is an outrageous attempt to defend the Qumran-Essene theory of Dead Sea Scroll origins by a group of scholars who for twenty-five years attempted to ignore criticism of that theory altogether.
Unfortunately, the Essene theory is still being presented as the truth in museum exhibits all over the world. See the blog on this problem at http://pacific-science-scrolls-scandal.blogspot.com/

[SunkenCiv]

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