From kraft Tue Jan 24 00:06:46 1995
Subject: Net-Auditor Comments
To: dss
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 00:06:46 -0500 (EST)

> First, THANK YOU for putting this on the net. 
> Second, my compliments on your www homepage.
> 
> As a curious layman with a 10-year backlog of issues of BAR, I took
> J. David Pleins' DSS course on a series of Saturdays last spring,
> culminating in a field trip to the DSS exhibit when it came through 
> San Francisco.
> 
> Now I am teaching a class on DSS to our adult Sunday School at
> Sunnyhills UMC in Milpitas (a Reconciling Congregation).
> 
> I just picked up Norman Golb's new book, modestly titled "Who Wrote
> the Dead Sea Scrolls," (Scribners, 1995) wherein he makes his case that: 
> 1. the proximity of the caches and the ruin do not necessarily mean
>    the hidden scrolls belonged to the residents of Khirbet Qumran.
> 2. the variety amongst the scrolls suggests multiple sources
> 3. the ruin itself has been far too facilely tagged as Essene.
> 
> The book is only $25, and could easily be added to your list of
> reviewables.
> 
> Might this be the work that BAR said was scheduled for publication by
> Macmillan in 1993?  
> 
> I recall seeing Dr. Golb's name associated with a more-scholarly-
> sounding volume on the subject a few years back, and wonder whether
> this new one might be a popularization of a more academically-oriented work.
> 
> It certainly is NOT a starting-point book.  After one finishes with
> VanderKam and Fitzmyer, one *might* be able to hack it, but it definitely
> presupposes a knowledge of the field already.
> ....

> --Guy K. Haas, Sr. Tech Writer  RTFM?                  ghaas@informix.com

Thanks for the reminder about Norman Golb's work. His new book has been
added to the list of reviewable books (students should note your warning
about its challenging nature for relative beginners). I assume that the
work mentioned in BAR is this book, but perhaps not. Golb has been
publishing and speaking about his hypotheses for several years now, as
the discussions in VanderKam illustrate (see the index), although I
don't see any listing of an earlier technical study on this topic by him
in our library catalogue.

RAK