2.18 Modern Debates: Scandal of the Dead Sea Scrolls

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Biblical find of the century, the Dead Sea Scrolls, were turned over to an international committee for study. Bad idea. The cabal refused to let the wider scholarly community examine the documents, and forced their own interpretations on the world. The cabal bamboozled first the Jordanian authorities, then the Israelis. The cabal's stranglehold was only broken by a bunch of academic freedom-fighters in the 1990s.

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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.0	Gentle listener.
0:22.3	I am afraid that the sound on this episode is a little burbly.
0:28.0	I have no idea how that happened, nor the least idea how to fix it.
0:33.3	I apologise and assure you that future episodes will be better.
0:38.4	Thank you.
0:40.2	Episode 2.18.
0:43.0	Modern Debates.
0:45.0	Scandal of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
0:48.1	In the last episode of the history in the Bible,
0:51.4	I introduced the biblical find of the 20th century.
0:56.5	The Dead Sea Scrolls discovered at Kumran. This episode will make a lot more sense
1:03.5	if you catch up with that episode first. But what the hay. The saga of the publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls constitutes the greatest academic scandal of the 20th century.
1:18.9	For more than 40 years, the scrolls were monopolised by an international research committee, staffed almost entirely by Conservative Catholics.
1:29.4	Not that there's anything wrong with Conservative Catholics.
1:33.1	They attempted to dominate intellectual discussion about the scrolls,
1:38.5	actively worked to prevent outsiders from examining the scrolls,
1:43.8	and declined to publish any findings that contradicted
1:47.4	their position. This episode is my version of that tale. Let me give you a big heads up. My account
1:57.5	is just one way of looking at the Embrolio.
2:01.6	There are plenty of people who will passionately argue that there was no scandal.
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