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Blood on the Floor at New York Dead Sea Scroll Conference

Qumran scriptorium reinterpreted as a dining room

What conference organizer Norman Golb of the University of Chicago intended as a “healing conference” (his words), in which scholars with widely varying interpretations of the Dead Sea Scrolls would meet in civil discourse, began with what can only be described as an academic brawl. The four-day conference December 14–17, 1992—was held, appropriately enough, in the New York Blood Center: By the first day there was blood on the floor. In the end, a reconciliation was cobbled together. But the wounds have not yet healed and they will doubtless leave scars, perhaps permanently. A book entitled The Dead Sea […]

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Footnotes

1.

Reviewed in BAR 19:01 (see ”Fragments“).

2.

Many press accounts referred to 19 scholars; Eugene Ulrich, of the University of Notre Dame, appears twice among the signatories.

3.

See “BAR Editor Unwelcome in Madrid, Disinvited to Dead Sea Scroll Congress,” BAR 17:03.