Dead Sea Scrolls coming to New York

New York's famous Jewish Museum has announced its upcoming Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, produced by the Israel Antiquities Authority and entitled "The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World." In a marked departure from previous Dead Sea Scrolls exhibits, the...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 10 wks ago | updated 9 wks ago
752 views | 4 comments
Church services, as depicted on website of WEA Korean affiliate: 830,000 congregation members...
Charles Gadda
1

Full-page New York Times ad sneers at Jews

On March 28, 2008, a statement, entitled "The Gospel and the Jews" and drafted by the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), appeared as a full-page ad in the New York Times.While asserting that they have a "genuine...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 26 wks ago | updated 24 wks ago
1350 views | 4 comments
Memorial Hall in Korean War Memorial, Seoul: appropriate venue for biased Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit?
Charles Gadda
1

Korean public gets to learn all about Dead Sea Scrolls

Some fans of "biblical archaeology" may wish to take a little trip to Seoul, Korea during the next couple of months.But just in case the flight is too expensive, I'm happy to offer you a look at the website for the...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 26 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago
988 views | 2 comments
Unmentioned by UCLA research team: frame from Ferdinand Rohrhirsch's partial, 3-D reconstruction of Qumran
Charles Gadda
1

3-D film dogged by "unwritten" story of misleading claims

"There's a third reason, but I never write it down." Robert Cargill, marginal comment in unpublished Virtual Qumran scriptThe Schniedewind/Cargill "Virtual Qumran" film:Last year, an exhibition of the Dead Sea...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 28 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago
861 views | 2 comments
Dr. Magness, of ASOR's board of trustees, gives a lecture (one of many) on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Charles Gadda
4

Charity fund involved in Dead Sea Scrolls conflict

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Influential foundation gives millions to museum presenting Dead Sea Scrolls as Essene writings and to key academic group ASOR ASOR and partner SBL exclude major researchers who reject...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 42 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
4312 views | 9 comments
"Atheist agression" topples American foundations: illustration accompanying D'Souza article in USA Today
Charles Gadda
1

Jesus, Judas, and the Dead Sea Scrolls: peddling religious sensationalism in ...

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Romney: religion not a private affair, America founded as Christian nation D'Souza: Christianity source of democratic institutions and science National Geographic, Discovery market sensationalist...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 42 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
4377 views | 12 comments
The Copper Scroll: a Jewish text, or the product of a sect?
Charles Gadda
1

Did Christian agenda lead to biased Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit in San Diego?

Please note: I have added an update towards the end of this article (before the massive series of angry, blustering comments submitted by a supporter of the San Diego museum). And I have added links to a pair of...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 1 year ago | updated 5 wks ago
14096 views | 15 comments
A scroll used on one of Weston Fields' ties, as shown on his website
Charles Gadda
1

Christian Fundamentalism and the Dead Sea Scrolls in San Diego

February 11, 2008 update: Please note: From time to time this article disappears, apparently on account of formatting problems connected with its length.  As of today I am shortening it.  I have...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 1 year ago | updated 14 wks ago
9631 views | 58 comments
Column of the Copper Scroll
Charles Gadda
1

Dead Sea Scrolls: "Qumran fortress" team responds to criticism

[Please note: I have added a November 16 update on a newly issued article about the "virtual reality" film created by the "Qumran fortress" team, which is being shown over and over again to thousands of visitors...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 1 year ago | updated 29 wks ago
1996 views | 6 comments
Wreckage of massive Qumran tower overlooking Dead Sea
Charles Gadda
2

Warriors occupied Qumran? Scrolls battle continues

During the past decade or so, a variety of sources, including the Cambridge History of Judaism, have made it clear that Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship is polarized between two salient theories of Scroll origins,...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
1627 views | 6 comments
Dr. Kohn as pictured on the museum's website
Charles Gadda
2

Dead Sea Scrolls at San Diego Natural History Museum — an update

Some of you may have read Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit misleads public? (July 2).As anyone could see, my intention in writing that piece was not to question the performance of Dr. Risa Levitt Kohn...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
4521 views | 5 comments
Column of the Copper Scroll
Charles Gadda
1

Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit misleads public?

[October 30 update: I have added a link to a newly issued review that places an enormous question mark over any claim to scientific legitimacy that this exhibit may have had.] The Los Angeles Times...
  • Charles Gadda
created by Charles Gadda | 1 year ago | updated 48 wks ago
5256 views | 13 comments
 

closeSign in to NowPublic

Not a member?

JoinIt's free!

is reporting from
Member
NP Rank: