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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by ilimilku on Monday September 09, 2019 @02:06PM (#20920668)
The Christian bias on scroll scholarship was widely corrected in the 90s with the Scrolls' public release. Since then Jewish scholarship of the Scrolls has contributed an enormous amount, cf. Lawrence Schiffman, Emanuel Tov, et al.
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Re:Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts' o... by whenchamenia on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @01:10AM (#20925192)
How about research unencumbered by deeply held beliefs relating to the scrolls? Jewish scholars are hardly unbiased.
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