Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Latrines of the Essenes?
The New York Times ^ | November 14, 2006 | By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD

Posted on 11/14/2006 8:21:04 AM PST by aculeus

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-36 last
To: jim macomber

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

A coprologist.


21 posted on 11/14/2006 9:09:33 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

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

Me too.
22 posted on 11/14/2006 9:15:56 AM PST by George W. Bush
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: aculeus

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


23 posted on 11/14/2006 9:57:00 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, November 13, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. Thanks.
Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the
"Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list or GGG weekly digest
-- Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

24 posted on 11/14/2006 9:57:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, November 13, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Red Badger

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


25 posted on 11/14/2006 10:03:15 AM PST by SouthTexas (Nature's answer to global warming---snow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Tax-chick

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


26 posted on 11/14/2006 10:04:30 AM PST by SouthTexas (Nature's answer to global warming---snow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Fitzcarraldo

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.


27 posted on 11/14/2006 10:08:43 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: SouthTexas

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


28 posted on 11/14/2006 11:23:13 AM PST by Tax-chick (Your friends are very small. They do not speak Greek.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: jim macomber

"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? ;-)


29 posted on 11/14/2006 12:36:53 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: oh8eleven

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


30 posted on 11/14/2006 12:42:39 PM PST by Cap Huff
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Tax-chick

Yeah. :(


31 posted on 11/14/2006 1:13:30 PM PST by SouthTexas (Nature's answer to global warming---snow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: aculeus
Archaeologists, it seems, will dig anything, even latrines.

'

What an incredible smell you’ve discovered!

32 posted on 11/14/2006 2:28:09 PM PST by Tamar1973 (I find your lack of faith disturbing--Darth Vader, Ep. IV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Thinkin' Gal; dighton
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.

33 posted on 11/14/2006 4:07:46 PM PST by aculeus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Terabitten

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.


34 posted on 01/03/2007 3:32:47 PM PST by raffa105 (It's no longer an accepted fact at all)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: SouthTexas

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/


35 posted on 01/03/2007 3:33:16 PM PST by raffa105 (There's already a known toilet, within the confines of Qumran)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


· join list or digest · view topics · view or post blog · bookmark · post a topic ·

 
Gods
Graves
Glyphs
Just updating the GGG info, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.
GGG managers are Blam, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
 

· Google · Archaeologica · ArchaeoBlog · Archaeology magazine · Biblical Archaeology Society ·
· Mirabilis · Texas AM Anthropology News · Yahoo Anthro & Archaeo ·
· History or Science & Nature Podcasts · Excerpt, or Link only? · cgk's list of ping lists ·


36 posted on 07/11/2008 9:34:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_________________________Profile updated Friday, May 30, 2008)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-36 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson