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Dead Sea Scrolls Research Council: Fragments

Why Professor Qimron’s Lawsuit Is a Threat to Intellectual Freedom

In the last issue, we printed a letter from Professor Elisha Qimron of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev regarding the lawsuit he has brought against BAR and its editor (“Letters on the Qimron Lawsuit Against BAS,” BAR 18:04). Professor Qimron is claiming over $200,000 in damages because we printed a photocopy of a page from a Polish publication that contained a Hebrew transcription of MMT, a much-discussed Dead Sea Scroll fragment that has still not been officially published more than 35 years after it was discovered. Professor Qimron contends that we infringed his copyright by printing a photocopy of […]

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Footnotes

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A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, prepared by Robert H. Eisenman and James M. Robinson (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1991).

2.

See André Lemaire, “Fragments from the Book of Baalam Found at Deir Alla,” BAR 11:05.