BAS Reprints Facsimile Edition of Scroll Photographs

A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, published by BAS last Novembera and then temporarily banned from distribution by an Israeli court,b is once again available to the public. The new printing includes an entirely new publisher’s foreword that has no attachments to it. One of the original foreword’s 22 attachments—a photocopy of a Hebrew transcription of the 120-line text known as MMT as it was published in a Polish journal—is the basis of the lawsuit brought against the Biblical Archaeology Society by Ben-Gurion University professor Elisha Qimron, one of the editors of MMT. Because the Israeli court’s […]