Dead Sea Scroll Scholar’s Son Off to Jail

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A New York appellate court has affirmed the criminal conviction of Raphael Golb, son of Dead Sea Scroll scholar Norman Golb, for impersonating another Dead Sea Scroll scholar, Lawrence Schiffman. In this guise, “Schiffman” (actually an email account Raphael Golb created in Schiffman’s name) admitted to plagiarizing the work of Raphael Golb’s father, Norman.

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For those interested in litigation strategy, also often applicable to scholarly debate, see Judge Learned Hand’s approbation of a distinguished lawyer who had the wisdom to rely on his strongest argument: “He dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided the appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is a mark of the most distinguished talent.” “In Memory of Charles Neave,” in Irving Dilliard, ed., The Spirit of Liberty, Papers and Addresses of Learned Hand (New York: Knopf, 1959), p. 97.

Endnotes

John J. Collins, The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Biography (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2012), p. 217.