The lawsuit brought against BAR in a Jerusalem court by Ben-Gurion University professor Elisha Qimron has been extremely draining financially. Qimron’s suit is based on our publication of a photocopy of a Hebrew transcript of the 120-line text known as MMT that originally appeared in a Polish Journal, The Qumran Chronicle. The photocopy was attached to Hershel Shanks’ Publisher’s Foreword to A Facsimile Edition of the unpublished scrolls published last November by the Biblical Archaeology Society. Qimron claims that the republication of this short text from the Polish journal has destroyed 11 years of his work. He seeks damages […]
