As I have explained in two other pieces, the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute website recently published an important article by historian Norman Golb. Part of Golb’s purpose is to refute a variety of misleading claims about Judaism and the origins of Christianity that are being presented to enthusiastic visitors at the Discovery Times […]
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit: historian condemns NYC Discovery Center’s claims on Christian origins
In this article, I continue my mini-series on statements about the Dead Sea Scrolls and Christian origins being presented to the public at the Discovery Center in New York. My specific topic in this entry will be University of Chicago professor Norman Golb’s discussion, in his latest Oriental Institute article on Scroll exhibition […]
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit: professor denounces misleading statements in NYC’s Discovery Center show
I had been planning to update my mini-series on the NYC Discovery Center exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls with a discussion of some rather sordid aspects of the academic politics behind the exhibit. Just yesterday, however, I read a relevant article that has come out on the Oriental Institute website at the University of […]
Errors and falsehoods in the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at NY’s Discovery Center
In an earlier article, I focused on misrepresentations of an anti-Jewish tenor in the Discovery Center’s exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls — misrepresentations now being viewed by thousands of tourists to New York’s famous Times Square, where the Center is located. In this second article of a mini-series I plan to devote to this […]
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at New York’s Discovery Center marred by anti-Jewish theme
This is the first of several articles focusing on mistakes and misrepresentations in a Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit taking place at the "Discovery Center"in New York. In this article I discuss the fact that, like a number of other recent exhibitions of the Scrolls created in cooperation with several Evangelical scholars, the current exhibit focuses to […]