Dead Sea Scrolls controversy in San Diego

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Some readers of this forum may be interested in a controversy that has erupted over the presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a natural history museum in San Diego, and over the treatment of Qumran archaeology at the recent annual meetings of ASOR and SBL (also in San Diego).  See, e.g.,

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/jesus-judas-and-dead-sea-scrolls-peddling-religious-sensationalism-america

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/charity-fund-involved-dead-sea-scrolls-conflict

http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/did-christian-agenda-lead-biased-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-san-diego

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there was some of this when I visited the exhibit in Kansas City earlier this year.  I had asked about the way they had been presenting the information as an apriori.  I had received no response. (and part of the reason I posted the other thread in this forum )

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University of Chicago historian Norman Golb reviewed the Kansas City exhibit in this article:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/dss_fact_fiction_2007.pdf