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Feb 21 Blog

BASONOVA: From Sectarianism to Consensus: The Rise of Rabbinic Judaism

Sunday, February 23, 2020 From Sectarianism to Consensus: The Rise of Rabbinic Judaism presented by Lawrence Schiffman The late Second Temple period (second century BCE […]

Feb 26 Blog

SCOTUS Declines Dead Sea Scroll Case

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

On February 20, 2018, the Supreme Court chose not to hear the case of Raphael Golb, who was convicted of harassing and impersonating the academic critics of his father, Dead Sea Scroll scholar Norman Golb.

Feb 26 Blog

Raphael Golb Guilty of Impersonating Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A New York jury returned a verdict of guilty on 30 of 31 counts against 50-year-old Raphael Golb, son of University of Chicago Dead Sea Scroll scholar Norman Golb. Thus ended Raphael Golb’s three week trial in which he admitted to originating hundreds of emails and blogs, in some of which he used fake accounts to impersonate prominent scroll scholar Lawrence Schiffman of New York University.

Nov 15 Blog

Museum of the Bible: Part Museum, Part Holy Land Experience

By: Robin Ngo

The Museum of the Bible is opening in Washington, DC. Take a look at some of the spectacular exhibition spaces and interactive rooms.

Oct 20 Blog

The Museum of the Bible in the Spotlight

By: Robin Ngo and Megan Sauter

A new museum dedicated to the best-selling book of all time will open in Washington, D.C.—just three blocks from the U.S. Capitol.

Jul 31 Blog

Liberator of the Nag Hammadi Codices

By: Charles W. Hedrick

A cache of ancient Christian Gnostic texts was found near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945—two years before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Similar to the situation with the Dead Sea Scrolls, a monopoly of scholars held up the publication of the Nag Hammadi texts and would not permit anyone else to see them. The late Jim Robinson intervened, and by 1970 he had managed to free the Nag Hammadi Codices.

May 16 Blog

Raphael Golb’s Dead Sea Scroll Conviction Affirmed By New York’s Highest Court

By: Hershel Shanks

On May 13, 2014, New York’s highest court affirmed the criminal conviction of Raphael Golb, son of Dead Sea Scroll scholar Norman Golb. The younger Golb had tried to support his father’s minority view of the scrolls by sending a number of fraudulent emails using pseudonyms.

Jan 30 Blog

Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar’s Son Off to Jail

By: Hershel Shanks

A New York appellate court has affirmed the criminal conviction of Raphael Golb, son of Dead Sea Scroll scholar Norman Golb, for impersonating another Dead […]

May 11 Blog

Fifty Years of Dead Sea Scroll Translation

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Fifty years have passed since a young scholar named Geza Vermes published the first Dead Sea Scrolls translation of the texts available at the time. The seventh edition of the book, now titled The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, includes every sufficiently preserved and available Qumran text.

Apr 16 Blog

Cast of Characters

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

A list of prominent biblical scholars, professors, priests and many others who have been involved in the study, publication and protection of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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