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5:55AM | posted by PIX 11 News | September 19, 2008 | comments: 1
Dead Sea Scrolls Now At NY's Jewish Museum
The Dead Sea Scrolls are a number of leather, papyrus, and copper scrolls dating from c100 b.c. to a.d. 135, containing partial texts of some of the books of the Old Testament and some non-Biblical scrolls, in Hebrew and Aramaic, and including apocryphal writings, commentaries, hymns, and psalms: found in caves near the NW coast of the Dead Sea beginning in 1947.
Now they are on display at the Jewish Museum. We'll hear from the curator of the exhibition and the head of the Israeli Antiquity Authority.
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This Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit claims to be more neutral than previous ones, but appears to be tainted by an attempt (no doubt motivated by concern about the religious sensitivity of the issue) to misrepresent the nature of the Jerusalem theory now supported by many major archaeologists and historians. In this regard, it is disappointing to learn that the museum has invited not only Schuller, but also Larry Schiffman, an alleged plagiarist who teaches at NYU, to lecture on the scrolls. See this article for a quite thorough expose on the mess into which Schiffman seems to have gotten himself:
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/plagiarism-and-dead-sea-scrolls-did-nyu-department-chairman-pilfer-chicago-historian-s-work