Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Some problems with those dubious DSS-like fragments.

THE LYNING PEN OF SCRIBES BLOG: “Troubling anomalies”, and elements that raise “questions”, “suspicions”, and “concerns” in Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection (Brill, 2016) (Årstein Justnes).
This blog post is a supplement to my DSD review of Emanuel Tov, Kipp Davis, and Robert Duke (eds), Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection (Publications of Museum of the Bible 1; Leiden: Brill, 2016; hardback, pp. 236; ISBN 9789004321489)

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This blog post is technical and is of interest to specialists. The DSD review, which is posted on Academia.edu (see the link), is more general and accessible to nonspecialists.

The discussion of these dubious post-2002 Dead Sea Scroll-like fragments has been going on for some time. For past PaleoJudaica posts, see here and links.

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