Dead Sea scrolls anything but dry

From: Anglican Journal | Date: May 1, 1996 | Copyright information

THE HISTORY of science and of social science in particular is filled with instances of embattled theoreticians belabouring each other from extremist positions. Articles in scholarly journals often lead to responses, rejoinders, rebuttals and refutations. Some disputes degenerate into shameless name-calling and hot accusations of quackery or fatuousness. Yet however caustic the language becomes, these learned and esoteric controversies are generally of interest to only a few academic specialists.

This has not been the case with the endless disputes swirling about the Dead Sea Scrolls ever ...

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