http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/ You can change this blog description in your editing menu by clicking Weblog Config and then Preferences. en-us carlogadda@yahoo.com 2007-11-22T00:28:27-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/archives/000620.html "The truth is, I wouldn't classify these as Jewish texts...."Curator of Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, San Diego Natural History Museum, speaking on June 2, 2007 Please note: this is a revised version of an article that originally appeared on October... 620@http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/ 2007-11-22T00:28:27-05:00 http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/archives/000506.html Is it proper for museums claiming scientific objectivity to sponsor exhibits significantly informed by fundamentalist beliefs? In fact, did the San Diego Natural History Museum even know that these various Christian organizations — all of which seem to be so oddly connected among themselves — were, together with members of the original Dead Sea Scrolls monopoly, behind the exhibit that Risa Levitt Kohn and Weston Fields pitched to them?Did they know that Kohn would collaborate with Fields to exclude a series of major Israeli archaeologists from the exhibit...? Did Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Stephen Spielberg and other famous donors know that of the millions of dollars they agreed to give for the exhibit, some would be handed over to graduate student (and Minister) Robert Cargill for a project that would be featured on the "University of the Holy Land" website; some would fund the "continuing research" of the old crew of Dead Sea Scrolls monopolists; and some would perhaps pad the pockets of the monopolists' other "righteous," i.e., fundamentalist collaborators? Would the donors have been so quick to shell out the money if they had known exactly who was asking for it? 506@http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/ 2007-08-31T22:07:39-05:00 http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/archives/000469.html The Los Angeles Times recently carried an interesting report by Mike Boehm, on the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit taking place at the San Diego Natural History Museum. They asked the curator, Dr. Risa Levitt Kohn, why the museum has... 469@http://dead_sea_scrolls_controversy.sandiegoblogs.com/ 2007-07-09T13:49:07-05:00