Got to love Cambridge Yes, you've got to love Cambridge. My morning meetings and appointments went faster than I had expected, and I had an hour or so to kill before a lunch meeting with a friend. We were meeting at the IBM building across the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge. I decided to get a mug of Starbuck's coffee at the Galleria mall and read the paper. Starbuck's has these comfy chairs and three of them stood around one table. Two were occupied, so I took the third. The occupants were a man and a woman. The woman was in her 30's, looking through some documents. The man was in his 50's or early 60's, just sitting there. As I was sitting down, I noticed that the documents were what looked like a biblical text in the original Hebrew. I asked the woman in Hebrew how the lessons were coming about. She looked at me incomprehensibly for a while and then explained that she was a PhD student in religious studies, studying early Christianity, so she did not know modern Hebrew, but could read the old texts. So we touched upon the Dead Sea Scrolls - nothing new there apparently, and I discovered that around the time of Christ there were four rather than three movements in Judaism, the fourth being the zealots (besides the harisees, Sadocees and Eeseaites), all according to Josephus Flavius. At that point the older man joined
the conversation, and we somehow got to an analysis of the nature of youth rebellion against
established cultural norms. I had to leave to have lunch with my friend, but this was quite a random
hour.
6:06:59 PM 
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