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Dead Sea Scrolls Research Council: Fragments

Dershowitz to Head Qimron’s Legal Team

Elisha Qimron, the Israeli Dead Sea Scroll scholar who is suing the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS) for a quarter of a million dollars, has hired Alan Dershowitz, one of this country’s most famous and most feared lawyers, to fight his case in the United States. Time magazine has called Dershowitz “the top lawyer of last resort in the country.” The Harvard professor’s successful defense of Klaus von Bulow, accused of murdering his wife, was made into the popular movie Reversal of Fortune. Less successful was Dershowitz’s defense of heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson, accused of rape, and hotel magnate Leona […]

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Endnotes

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See Hershel Shanks, “The Difference Between Scholarly Mistakes and Scholarly Concealment: The Case of MMT,” BAR 16:05; “Israeli Court Bans BAR from Selling Book of Dead Sea Scroll Photos,” BAR 18:02; and “Why Professor Qimron’s Lawsuit Is a Threat to Intellectual Freedom,” BAR 18:05.