University of Chicago professor Norman Golb holds a distinctively minority view of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. According to Professor Golb, Qumran was a military fortress, rather than an Essene religious settlement, and the scrolls deposited in nearby caves came from various groups in Jerusalem, including the Temple. He has long protested that museum exhibits of the scrolls fail to offer viewers dissenting interpretations, such as his own, of Qumran and the origin of the scrolls. Professor Golb’s son Raphael, a 49-year-old New York lawyer, agrees: His father’s views have been short-changed by the academic community. According to […]
