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- From: jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: Dead Sea Scrolls again
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 02:14:14 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov15.211236.1@adcalc.fnal.gov> <1e87vkINN2kl@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1992Nov18.000437.27301@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1992Nov18.000437.27301@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- >I have heard claims that the scrolls are being suppressed because they offer
- >dramatic confirmation of the New Testament and vice versa, because they
- >contradict it. By the way, I thought that the scrolls were largely under
- >control of the Israelis. I was not aware that the Roman Catholic Church
- >has any authority over their publication or witholding. Who does control
- >them?
- >
- >Gerry Palo (73237.2006)
-
- It depends on whether you mean legal or practical control. The
- original Dead Sea Scroll finds, as well as later discoveries were
- divided. In some cases, Israelis were able to find and/or buy
- the documents. However, a very large portion of the finds never
- left the Jordanian sphere of influence and were assigned to an
- international scholarly committee. These scrolls resided in the
- Rockefeller Museum in the Moslem Quarter of the old city of
- Jerusalem. The committee primarily worked out of their home
- bases in Europe, but came to Jerusalem to meet and to examine
- the original documents. All but two of the members were Catholics.
- One of the non-Catholics was assigned to the non-sectarian (that is,
- Biblical) documents. The other was soon discredited by his fellows.
- In 1967, Israel gained control of the Rockefeller Museum, but
- decided not to interfere with the committee. Therefore, although
- it might be said that all of the scrolls were under Israeli
- authority, nothing had actually changed in terms of the working
- procedures on scroll publication--that is until the storm of
- a couple of years ago. Currently, the Israeli authorities have
- acted to reassign some of the publication rights. But this
- article is getting too long...
-
- Jack F. Love
-
-