The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

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3. The Scandal of the Scrolls

1. Wilson, The Dead Sea Scrolls 1947-1969, p. 77.

2. Ibid., pp.97-8.

3. Ibid., p.97.

4. Interview, Philip Davies, 10 October 1989.

5. There was, however, one ‘rash’ statement made by Wilson which, for the record, should be dismissed. De Vaux told Wilson a story of events during the Six Day War, when, according to Wilson’s report, the Israeli troops, upon entering the grounds of the Ecole Biblique on 6 June 1967, sat priests, two at a time, as hostages in the open courtyard. The threat was that they should be shot if any sniper fire should come from the buildings of the Ecole or the associated Monastery of St Stephen. See Wilson, op. cit., p.259. Interviews in Israel have indicated that this event did not take place but was a tale foisted upon Wilson by de Vaux. Wilson did not apparently check this statement with any Israeli sources.

6. Interview, Shemaryahu Talmon, 8 November 1989.

7. Given to the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres on 26 May 1950. Reported in Le Monde, 28-9 May 1950, p.4.

8. Brownlee, ‘The Servant of the Lord in the Qumran Scrolls I’, p.9.

9. Allegro to Strugnell, in a letter undated but written between 14 and 31 December 1955.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid.

12. New York Times, 5 February 1956, p.2.

13. Ibid.

14. The Times, 8 February 1956, p.8.

15. Allegro to de Vaux, 9 February 1956.

16. Allegro to de Vaux, 20 February 1956.

17. Ibid.

18. Allegro to de Vaux, 7 March 1956.

19. Ibid.

20. Allegro to Cross, 6 March 1956.

21. The Times, 16 March 1956, p. 11.

22. The Times, 20 March 1956, p. 13.

23. Ibid.

24. Allegro to Strugnell, 8 March 1957.

25. Smyth, ‘The Truth about the Dead Sea Scrolls’, p.33.

26. Ibid., p.34.

27. Allegro to Claus-Hunno Hunzinger, 23 April 1956.

28. Harding to Allegro, 28 May 1956.

29. The Times, 1 June 1956, p. 12.

30. Allegro to Harding, 5 June 1956.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid.

33. Allegro to Cross, 5 August 1956.

34. Allegro to de Vaux, 16 September 1956.

35. Allegro to team member (name withheld), 14 September 1959.

36. Team member (name withheld) to Allegro, 21 October 1959.

37. Allegro to de Vaux, 16 September 1956.

38. Ibid.

39. Allegro to Cross, 31 October 1957.

40. Ibid.

41. Allegro to James Muilenburg, 31 October 1957.

42. Allegro to Muilenburg, 24 December 1957.

43. Ibid.

44. Allegro to Dajani, 10 January 1959.

45. Ibid.

46. The Times, 23 May 1970, p.22.

47. The Times, 19 May 1970, p.2.

48. The Times, 26 May 1970, p.9.

49. The Daily Telegraph, 18 May 1987, p.ll.

50. The Times, 5 October 1970, p.4.

51. Wilson, op. cit., p. 125.

52. Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls: Qumran in Perspective, pp. 23-4.

53. Times Literary Supplement, 3 May 1985, p.502.

54. Ibid.

55. Eisenman has pointed to mention of ‘the Poor’ in the War Scroll; see Eisenman, op. cit., p.43, n.23; p.62, n.105. This text states that the Messiah will lead ‘the Poor’ to victory against the armies of Belial (The War Scroll, XI,14 (Vermes, p.116 — Vermes for his own reasons translates ‘Belial’ as ‘Satan’) ). For a more detailed discussion, see Eisenman, ‘Eschatological “Rain” Imagery in the War Scroll from Qumran and in the Letter ofjames’, p. 182.

56. Interview, Emile Puech, 7 November 1989.

57. BAR, March/April 1990, p. 24. This fragment is coded 4Q246 and was first found and privately translated by the scholars in 1958.

58. Ibid.

4. Opposing the Consensus

1. The Times, 23 August 1949, p.5.

2. Ibid.

3. Jean Carmignac, review of Roth, The Historical Background of the Dead Sea Scrolls. See Revue de Qumran, no.3, 1959 (vol.i, 1958-9), p.447.

4. De Vaux made this assertion in ‘Fouilles au Khirbet Qumran’, Revue biblique, vol.lxi (1954), p.233. He repeated it in his ‘Fouilles de Khirbet Qumran’, Revue biblique, vol.lxiii (1956), p.567, and in ‘Les manuscrits de Qumran et l’archeologie’, Revue biblique, vol.lxvi (1959), p. 100.

5. Roth, ‘Did Vespasian Capture Qumran?’, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, July- December 1959, pp.l22ff.

6. Driver, The Judaean Scrolls, p.3.

7. De Vaux, review of Driver, The Judaean Scrolls. See New Testament Studies, vol.xiii (1966-7), p. 97.

8. Ibid., p. 104.

9. Albright, in M. Black, ed. The Scrolls and Christianity, p. 15.

10. Eisenman to authors, 13 June 1990.

11. Eisenman to authors, 27 September 1989.

12. BAR, September/October 1985, p.66.