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Israeli Scholar Bares His Fangs—Again!

Qimron Threatens to Sue García Martínez for Character Defamation

As part of its campaign in the 1980s and early 1990s to obtain release of the unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls, the Biblical Archaeology Society (publisher of BAR) reprinted from a Polish journal an unauthorized copy of the then-secret Dead Sea Scroll text known as MMT as reconstructed by Harvard’s John Strugnell and Elisha Qimron (above, left) of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 1992 Qimron sued BAS for copyright violation in the Jerusalem District Court and won.a The Israel Supreme court affirmed. The lawsuit cost BAS approximately $100,000. In addition to Qimron’s recovery of about $48,000, BAS was required […]

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Footnotes

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“Israeli Court Bans BAR from Selling Book of Dead Sea Scroll Photographs,” BAR 18:02; “Why Professor Qimron’s Lawsuit Is a Threat to Intellectual Freedom,” BAR 18:05; Elisha Qimron, “Qimron Defends His Lawsuit—‘No Threat to Intellectual Freedom,’” BAR 19:02; Hershel Shanks, “Lawsuit Diary,” BAR 19:03; “Qimron Is Author of MMT Reconstruction, Jerusalem Court Holds,” BAR 19:03; “American Professors Seek to Block Qimron’s Control of MMT,” BAR 16:05; “Oxford University Press ‘Unethical,’ Charges Qimron,” Barlines BAR 21:02; “Qimron Owns Dead Sea Scroll Copyright, Israeli Court Holds,” Strata BAR 26:06.

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“Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due,” BAR 27:02.