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Originally Posted by mens_sana
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Originally Posted by spin
The reason why they were withheld was that most of the people who were working on them were incompetent.
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I'm not sure you can chalk it up to just that. For instance, Frank Moore Cross was quite competent. |
You overrate him. This is the fellow who saddled scrolls research with his infamous palaeographic sequence based on the whims of his mentor W.F. Albright. Before that he was responsible for a few other clangers with regard to palaeographic dating issues.
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Originally Posted by mens_sana
From just casual reading, overall management was pretty lousy. None of the scholars were given any kind of schedule for presenting their documents and management's urging carried no special weight. Only quite late in the process were scrolls plucked forcefully out of one man's hands and handed on to another. And, if I recall, there were a couple of deaths. I have a suspicion, unsupported of course, that at least some of the scholars saw the opportunity for "carving out a niche" in the academic realm with their work.
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I must admit they wouldn't have received much of a stipend for their work, so they had to make the most of what they could with the scrolls they had in their possession. Strugnell went to Harvard, as did Cross. Only Cross's students got to work on the Wadi edh-Dhaliyeh scrolls, just as only cronies got to see the Qumran texts. Put scrolls research back decades.
spin
02-16-2008, 04:32 AM
