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On Fri, 16 Feb 1996, Andrew Gross wrote:

> Tov's revised figures appear in the paper he contributed to the volume 
> _Time to Prepare the Way in the Wilderness_ edited by Lawrence Schiffman 
> and Devorah Dimant (Brill 1995).

I stand corrected! (I actually have a copy of Tov's article on file, it 
must have just slipped my mind).  In regards to my previous post, in this 
article Tov argues that it is not easy to characterize the textual 
character of the "Qumran practice" texts as the scribes who copied them 
took so many liberties that their Vorlagen cannot be identified (p. 95). 
Nevertheless, I still stand by my previous assertion that Tov is 
comparing apples and oranges and that he should have organized his data 
differently.

> methodological leap of faith.  Specifically, even if the figures for
> distribution of text-types at Qumran support Schiffman's position, one 
> still must assume that the distribution of text-types at Qumran can be 
> extrapolated to all of Palestine at that time.  I still don't see how 
> such an extrapolation is justified 

The problem, in my mind, is further complicated by the fact that we have 
only what was found at Qumran; we don't know if we have even fully 
represents the Qumran community, let alone Palestine.

Tyler
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