BAR Decides to Appeal Qimron Decision, After All

In our BAR 19:04 issue, we announced that we would not appeal the Jerusalem court’s decision that Professor Elisha Qimron owns the copyright on the reconstructed text of the Dead Sea Scroll known as MMT. “Now the scholarly community,” we said, “will have to live with that decision—and deal with it in its own way.”a We have changed our mind. We are going to appeal. The principal reason for the change is the courageous action of two American scholars—Professor Ben Zion Wacholder of Hebrew Union College Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Professor Martin Abegg of Grace […]