Fake and real DSS fragments isolated in the Schøyen Collection?

TECHNOLOGY WATCH: Authentic Fragments Identified in Schøyen Dead Sea Scroll Collection, Among Many Fraudulent Manuscripts (The Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts Press Release).

Dead Sea Scroll scholar Årstein Justnes of the University of Agder commented that CSNTM’s findings regarding MS 4612-1 “could have major implications for Dead Sea Scrolls research,” revealing the artifact to be potentially “the first known example of a Dead Sea Scroll forgery that predates 2002" – the year numerous fragments purported to be Dead Sea Scrolls surfaced in the market and were acquired by collectors around the world. This second cache of Dead Sea Scroll fragments is now understood to consist primarily of inauthentic documents.

Although the majority of fragments in Schøyen’s Dead Sea Scroll collection appear to be modern forgeries, multispectral imaging technology has captured details that support the hypothesis that some of the Schøyen fragments are authentic.

This sounds like an important development. I would like to know more about the fragments (provisionally?) authenticated by this process.

The CSNTM website is here. For PaleoJudaica posts on those post-2002 mostly fake Dead Sea Scroll-like fragments, see here and links, plus here. For more on the Schøyen Collection, see here and links.

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