Debate Erupts Over Authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Though much has been written about the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves, the ruins of Qumran where the scrolls were found was largely unexplored, until now. By John Noble Wilford. [New York Times: Science]
“There is no new consensus,” Dr. Katharina M. Galor, a Brown archaeologist and an organizer of the conference, said during a break in the talks. “Or the new consensus is that the old consensus is dead.”