Feb 26 Blog
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.
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
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
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
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 […]
Oct 1 Blog
Manhattan lawyer Raphael Golb convicted of impersonating, harassing NYU Dead Sea Scrolls professor by Melissa Grace, from New York Daily News A Manhattan lawyer was […]
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