Dead Sea Scrolls
Dead Sea Scroll Variation on “Show and Tell”—It’s Called “Tell, But No Show”
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Footnotes
MMT is the siglum for a secret text that chief scroll editor John Strugnell has been talking about at scholarly conferences for five years. He still has not released the text, however. It is scheduled for publication soon.
See Raphael Levy, “First ‘Dead Sea Scroll’ Found in Egypt Fifty Years Before Qumran Discoveries,” BAR 08:05.
B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are the religiously neutral terms used by scholars, corresponding to B.C. and A.D.
See “Essene Origins—Palestine or Babylonia?” BAR 08:05.
“Dead Sea Scrolls Publication—The Prospects Are Not So Bad,” Queries & Comments, BAR 15:06.
See Hershel Shanks, “What Should Be Done About the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls?” BAR 15:05.