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Article: Can ideas be held hostage? Proprietorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls raises issue of fairness in intellectual inquiry. (Horizons: Religion)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- June 25, 1990
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RELIGION * Proprietorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls raises issue of fairness in intellectual inquiry
Forty-three years ago, a young Bedouin shepherd exited a rocky cave in Qumran, in what is now the Israelioccupied West Bank, with the first of what have become widely known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was the richest cache of documents ever discovered from the period that gave birth to Christianity and modem Judaism, and the appearance and description of what was apparently an ancient library sparked the curiosity of theological scholars worldwide. Today, however, much of that historic find-which includes the oldest known texts of the Bible-remains hidden to all but ...
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