Museum director battles with Dead Sea Scroll exhibit critics »
Posted By Viewer1 11 months, 2 weeks ago in ReligionMichael Hager, the director of the San Diego Natural History Museum, where a controversial exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls took place last year, has emerged from a lengthy silence, grappling with critics of the exhibit in a letter published in Canada's National Post. In turn, a response by University of Chicago historian Norman Golb has also appeared in the same newspaper, as the Dead Sea Scrolls controversy moves to Toronto.
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Hemlocker11 months, 2 weeks ago
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These Dead Sea Scroll exhibits are a true scandal; the directors of the museums where they are being held should all be ashamed of themselves. Since when do priests and "Bible scholars" have the technical expertise to deal with complex archaeological and historical data? This is religious myth-making produced by self-anointed "experts" under the guise of science, and it should have no place in American cultural and scientific institutions.
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