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The text, in my current opinion, is probably not one that Clement would or did write. To repeat, about the text, C. Murgia, for example, had imo relevant observations about text anomalies. I also recently mentioned here an article by Jonathan Klawans in the latest JQR that also raises questions abou...

I would not say I was hostile to Morton Smith. At a conference I went up to him, and we had a good talk about Dead Sea Scrolls publication. I sent Smith by snail mail two times draft articles which he kindly criticized and mailed back to me. I thought that was generous of him. And I consider Gershom...

The suggested list of "the best we can come up with" item is not complete, imo, and (a), for example, I would not consider one of the main issues (maybe he read it; maybe not). If I were making a list, I might include some of the Smith-Scholem letters. For instance in 1976 Smith wrote Scholem, in pa...

Perhaps of interest: Origen and the Jews: studies in Jewish-Christian relations in third-century Palestine
N. R. M. de Lange. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

"...in the last season...But the find turned out not to be a scroll after all."
Possibly this may refer to the small (and maybe thick?) piece of skin that was previously publicized.
Haaretz, Jan. 16, 2019

One can mention a handwriting analyst, with modern courtroom experience, IIRC, who says one thing or mention another analyst, with extensive experience in historical hands, who says quite another thing. Or wonder if Smith had an assistant--or a scribal teacher. One can recall that some think Smith w...

An interview with Eibert Tigchelaar, "Fake Dead Sea Scrolls Explained," may interest some: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqAsE0zyV8s A minor correction: at 49:25ff the interviewer brings up a 20th-century forgery of a Jerusalem Talmud order; he said he thinks it was Nashim; he probably meant to sa...

Comments on Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls (T. & T. Clark, 2019, G. Brooke and C. Hempel, eds.) I recommend this book for university libraries (I requested it for Duke). It is rather well edited and offers 75 mostly-fine chapters. The volume provides a good opportunity to survey a wide swath of c...

The 2018 issue of the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting is now available. Online, open source, peer-reviewed. Plus comment forum. Spread the word.

http://www.jjmjs.org/

Two related pages on the tests on MOTB mss: https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Press-Releases/2018/AnalyticalSciences/2018-10-26-bam-research-dead-sea-scrolls-museum-of-the-bible.html https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Standard-Articles/News/Special-pages/analysis-dead-sea-scrolls-fragments-museum-of-the-bibl...