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January 21, 2016

What’s Next for the Dead Sea Scrolls?

“Part of the underlying fabric of contemporary Western culture.”

Over the past 25 years, after decades of foot-dragging and obstruction by those with access to them, the vast majority of the texts found in the caves of Qumran have been examined and published. But as the scholar Martin Abegg points out in a discussion with his colleagues Peter Flint and Andrew Perrin, making the scrolls available for study is “simply the beginning of the conversation.” (Interview by Megan Sauter.)

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