[malakhi]

I've started reading the Dead Sea Scrolls (The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, trans. and introduction by Geza Vermes). I finished reading the 100 page introduction and background. Vermes has a different take on the dating of the scrolls, placing most of them in the second and first centuries BCE. I'll have to pull out Eisenman again to look up his reasoning for a later date.

[Invincibly Ignorant]

I'll have to pull out Eisenman again to look up his reasoning for a later date.

This is the reason I had some trouble with Eisenman. He doubted the dating of the damascus document. Not that this doubt in and of itself was troublesome but alot of his stuff was based on his own supposition regarding the dates of that document.