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Feb 26 Blog

SCOTUS Declines Dead Sea Scroll Case

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.

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 […]

Nov 18 Blog

Raphael Golb’s Sentencing

By: Melissa Grace

Raphael Golb gets six months in prison for impersonating Dead Sea Scrolls scholar by Melissa Grace, from New York Daily News A disbarred lawyer convicted […]

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