Footnote 5 – BARview: Failure to Publish Dead Sea Scrolls Is Leitmotif of New York University Scroll Conference

Allegro himself has frequently chided his colleagues on the international committee for their delays. In 1984, Allegro commented:

“I am still the only member of that original team to have published all of his section of the work in definitive form (1968). … Despite all the impatient mummurings of fellow-academics over the years, my colleagues have managed to retain their exclusive control over these important manuscripts.” (The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth [First American Editions, 1984], p. 6.)

These published “treasures,” as Allegro calls them, will be available to all only “when a handful of privileged scholars can be persuaded to find the will and energy to share ‘their’ jealously guarded manuscripts with less fortunate colleagues and the world at large” (p 7).