The New Struggle for the Scrolls: Will They Go to the Palestinians?

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Will the Dead Sea Scrolls and the ruins of Qumran, adjacent to the caves where the scrolls were found, be given to the Palestinians? As the Israelis and Palestinians struggle slowly and painfully toward some kind of accommodation that eventually will almost certainly involve the creation of a Palestinian state, the future of the scrolls and the settlement associated with them is emerging as another thorny issue. Several things are clear. Qumran is in the West Bank. So are the 11 caves where the scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956. And before 1967, Qumran was in an area […]

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Footnotes

See Ze’ev Meshel, “Did Yahweh Have a Consort?” BAR 05:02; André Lemaire, “Who or What was Yahweh’s Asherah?” BAR 10:06; and J. Glen Taylor, “Was Yahweh Worshiped as the Sun?” BAR 20:03.

See “Holy Targets: Joseph’s Tomb Is Just the Latest,” BAR 27:01.

Endnotes

See Talia Einhorn, “Restitution of Archaeological Artifacts: The Arab-Israeli Aspect,” in International Journal of Cultural Property 5 (1996), pp. 133–153.

Einhorn, “Restitution,” p. 148.

Einhorn, “Restitution,” pp. 148–149.

See Jeanette Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989).

Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures, p. 296.

Magnus Magnusson in Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures, p. 9.