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Dead Sea Scrolls,” he provides a brief account of the reconstruction of the Cave 4 texts based,
at least in part, on conversations with Martin Abegg and his own recollection of events.
469Email communication with Martin Abegg, 10 May 2008.
470Following the release of the volumes, Kaufman editorialized against their work, offering (1)
that he thought the result of their efforts created a problematic text from a scholarly perspective,
and (2) that the action was immoral in that it “scooped” scholars who had devoted much of
their lives to preparing texts for publication and had been promised the rights to publish first
editions. See “The Ethical Issues: A Position Statement,” Newsletter of the Comprehensive Aramaic
Lexicon 9 (Feb. 1992): 1, 5.
471Kaufman, “Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered,” A1, A10.
472Abegg, Phelps, and Shanks, “Will Marty Abegg Ever Find A Job?” 38.
473According to Kaufman (“Secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered,” A10), Wacholder was
so enthusiastic about the project that he acted to provide financial support for the work himself,
mortgaging his home for $26,000. In recent discussion with Wacholder and his family it appears
that this was not the case, and the details were erroneously reported. Interview with Ben Zion
Wacholder and his daughter Nina Wacholder, 25 October 2008. Following the interview, email
communications from other Wacholder children showed surprise at the report.
474Email communication with Martin Abegg, 10 May 2008.
475Preben Wernberg-Møller, The Manual of Discipline: Translated and Annotated with an
Introduction (STJD 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1957).
476For a fuller discussion of the activities surrounding the Eisenman-Brill arrangement, see
Silberman, The Hidden Scrolls, 231–234.
477Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeological Society, 1991.
478Wacholder and Abegg, “After 30 Years of Yearning,” 3.
479John Noble Wilford, “Computer Breaks Monopoly on Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” The
New York Times (5 September 1991): A1, A7.
480Ibid. 481 Ibid.
482Noam M.M. Neusner, “Scholars Feud Over Bootlegged Scroll,” Detroit Jewish News (13
September 1991): 32–33. Quote on 32.
483The italicized portion is added by hand to the typed letter. It is signed by “Professor John
Strugnell, Editor-in-Chief, Discoveries in the Judaean Desert,” 12 October 1989.
484David J. Gilner, “H.U.C. Violated No Trust Over Scrolls Concordance,” BAR 19, no.3 (May/
June 1993): 17.
485Joseph Fitzmyer, “Reply to Gilner,” BAR 19, no.3 (May/June 1993): 17–18.
486Ibid., 18.
487 “Bootleg Volume of Long-Secret Dead Sea Scrolls Is Published,” The Los Angeles Times (5
September 1991): 18.
488Ellen K. Coughlin, “Biblical Scholars Construct Bootleg Version of Some Unpublished
Dead Sea Scrolls,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (11 September 1991): A9, A12. Quote
on A12.
489Wilford, “Computer Breaks Monopoly,” A7.
490Neusner, “Scholars Feud Over Bootlegged Scroll,” 32.
491Abraham Rabinovich, “Bootleg Scrolls,” The Jerusalem Post International Edition (week ending
26 October 1991): 11. Tov had been Abegg’s first teacher of the scrolls during a seminar at the
Hebrew University in 1986–1987. Of his relationship with Tov following the publication of
the unauthorized reconstructions, Abegg wrote:
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