The Biblical Archaeology Society’s publication of transcripts of Dead Sea Scrolls (“BAS Publishes Secret Dead Sea Scrolls,” BAR 17:05) has been almost universally applauded, with one prominent exception—the editors who still control access to the secret documents. According to a headline in the Jerusalem Post they are “enrage[d].” John Strugnell, recently fired as editor in chief of the Dead Sea Scroll publication team for calling Judaism “a horrible religion,” accused Professor Ben-Zion Wacholder and Martin Abegg of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, who reconstructed the secret manuscripts with the aid of a computer, of “stealing.” Professor Jonas Greenheld of […]
