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Chief Dead Sea Scroll Editor Denounces Judaism, Israel; Claims He’s Seen Four More Scrolls Found by Bedouin

By Avi Katzman

John Strugnell, chief editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls, agreed to an interview provided I report it not only in the Hebrew paper for which I write, Ha-Aretz, but also in an English-language publication. The Hebrew article appeared in Ha-Aretz on November 9, 1990. The following article, for BAR, fulfills my obligation to report the interview in an English-language publication as well. The interview took place on October 28, 1990 in Professor Strugnell’s small room at the “French School,” the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in east Jerusalem. Although Strugnell drank beer throughout the interview—this did not surprise me […]

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Footnotes

1.

See Yigael Yadin, “The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll,” BAR 10:05.

2.

See “The Difference Between Scholarly Mistakes and Scholarly Concealment,” BAR 16:05.