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| Title: The Current State of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Are There More Answers Than Questions? Secondary Title: The Scrolls and the Scriptures: Qimran Fifty Years After Pages: 54-67 Type: Book Section Year: 1997 Abstract: Schweitzer, Steven J. in: OTA 22.1 (1999), 120: "G. examines three possible impediments he observes in prior and current scholarship on the Scrolls: (1) an uncritical attachment to a past consensus; (2) the failure to make properly critical historical judgments; and (3) the continued politicization of Qumran scholarship. He focuses in particular on the arguments and assumption of the Essene origins of the Scrolls, the common misuse of Josephus to serve the purposes of the individual scholar, and the rejection of divergent theories concerning the Scrolls - citing N. Golb in particular, although he is quick to disavow himself from Golb's ideas". |