Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mls@attunix.att.com (Mike Siemon) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Dead Sea Scrolls Controversy Message-ID: Date: 19 Nov 89 19:39:21 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 31 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , ncramer@bbn.com (Nichael Cramer) writes: > article about some raging controversy surrounding the remaining unpublished > Dead Sea Scrolls. Reference was also made to an on-going series of > editorials in _Biblical Archeology Review_. I don't read _BAR_, but the fooferaw is mostly a complaint by scholars with no access to the scrolls that publication is 1. excessively slow (compared, for example, with Nag Hammadi) 2. access to materials is denied to all but the students of the editors (in some cases), thereby effectively doing an academic power play, to the major disruption of scholarship 3. some publication delays are charged to be because the texts undermine long-held positions (academic or religious) of the editors. The editors' response amounts to - dammit, this is hard work to do right; stop noodging. It should be obvious that there is potential here for major flammage on all sides. I am unqualified to venture any substantive opinion on this. -- Michael L. Siemon Inflict Thy promises with each cucard!dasys1!mls Occasion of distress, att!sfbat!mls That from our incoherence we standard disclaimer May learn to put our trust in Thee