Show Dispute- chums over Dead Sea Scrolls - By JAMES L FRANKLIN as free scholars and should be allowed to do the work we are qualified to do’ ‘We should be treated Boston Globe PRINCETON NJ — In an encounter that at times was as heated as it was rare the editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls met Monday night with two of who have denounced the secrecy surrounding hundreds of still unpublished texts from the — Norman Golb the-critic- leagues would do such a thing We should be treated as free scholars and should be allowed to do the work we are qualified scrolls John Strugnell of Harvard University and Eugene Ulrich of the University of Notre Dame disclosed a schedule under which much of the material found beginning in 1948 in caves at Qumran on the western shore of the Dead Sea will be published over the next 10 to 12 to do” The dialogue was arranged after a series of editorials this year in the Biblical Archaeology Review brought into the open a dispute At issue are about 590 leather and papyrus manuscripts found first by Bedouin shepherds and later by archaeologists at Qumran Scrolls with some of the earliest copies of parts of the Hebrew Bible and other writings were published as soon as 1952 But much still remains secret with access denied even to other scholars in the field The unpublished material is under the control of six scholars who have worked on the texts since their discovery or who have been designated by members of the team who have since died The Dead Sea Scrolls have had a dramatic impact on biblical scholarship “One of the most significant manuscript discoveries of the 20th century” Qumran’s scrolls “threw un- long-simmeri- years But neither man accepted the challenge of Hershe) Shanks publisher of the Biblical Archaeology Review to make the texts they control available to fellow scholars before publication And Norman Golb of the University of Chicago excoriated the editors’ dismissal of a plea for early disclosure of the texts made at a recent conference of specialists on the papyrus scrolls in Krakow Poland “If the texts you hold were published 30 years ago there would be a different interpreta- tion of Qumran origins” Golb said "I don't think it is right for you to pass this material on to your students None of my col- - LOCALOLOWNEU&LOPERATEDSS1NCEB96 TO HONOR ELDER PAUL H DUNN FOR HIS MANY YEARS OF SERVICE WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING BOOKS AND CASSETTE TAPES NO GREATER GIFT Paul H Dunn For the first time Elder Dunn shares his profound understanding of the Atone- ment Book-$109- 3 9 Cassettes-$159- 9 CHRISTMAS: DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? 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