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- From: jlove@ivrit.ra.itd.umich.edu (Jack Love)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: Dead Sea Scrolls again
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 00:55:29 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov18.000437.27301@digi.lonestar.org> <1992Nov18.144909.26222@hellgate.utah.edu> <1992Nov19.160954.3276@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1992Nov19.160954.3276@digi.lonestar.org> gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- >they will be dead (if some of them aren't already) Is it maybe a matter
- >of a job-for-life sinecure? Anyway, what can be done to get the scrolls
- >made available, at least in facsimile?
- >
- >Gerry Palo (e-mail to 73237.2006@compuserve.com)
-
- BAR is doing just that, and of course the official publications
- will be coming out much faster now.
-
- Many thanks to the few of you who have encouraged me to add to
- this disscussion. But I haven't seen any questions that could
- not be answered simply by picking up the latest issue of BAR
- on the newstand, or of course getting it from the library. Now
- if we want to have a discussion around some of the issues, that's
- another matter.
-
- The reason I solicited feedback is that I am very concerned about
- the effect that the lawsuit now pending against BAR will have (this
- may be one of those cases where even if BAR wins, they will lose
- because of the expenses they are incurring).
-
- The question is by no means a one-way affair. The Israeli scholar
- who is suing has a valid point. He spent months and perhaps even
- years piecing together a fragmentary work and he feels he has the
- right to benefit from its publication. BAR for its part argues
- that the text (as reconstructed by the scholar) was already
- published in some obscure Polish publication, and therefore "the
- cat was out of the bag."
-
- If there continues to be interest, we can either summarize
- the last BAR article on the subject, or perhaps someone with
- access to a scanner can upload it.
-
- Jack F. Love
-
-