The Strange Search for the Ashes of the Red Heifer
Never heard of the "search for the ashes of the Red Heifer?" Is Vendyl Jones absent from the index of your latest book on the Dead Sea Scrolls? While occasioning many a scholarly blank stare, Vendyl Jones and his excavations in the Cave of the Column in the vicinity of Qumran have vast pop...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholars Press
1996
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The Biblical archaeologist
Year: 1996, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 74-89 |
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| Summary: | Never heard of the "search for the ashes of the Red Heifer?" Is Vendyl Jones absent from the index of your latest book on the Dead Sea Scrolls? While occasioning many a scholarly blank stare, Vendyl Jones and his excavations in the Cave of the Column in the vicinity of Qumran have vast popular appeal. With an idiosyncratic reading of the Copper Scroll, Jones claims to know the hiding place of the ashes of the Red Heifer. His excavations have produced a substance he claims as the long-hidden remains of the incense mixture used in the Jerusalem Temple. Do Jones's claims have any merit? Can he be safely ignored as a harmless fool or do competent archaeologists have a responsibility to respond publicly to his assertions? |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210511 |