I'd like to point out (I've seen this confusion elsewhere) that while this is a multimillion dollar fraud and honestly shocking, this does not apply to the "original" cache of scrolls which are in...
I'd like to point out (I've seen this confusion elsewhere) that while this is a multimillion dollar fraud and honestly shocking, this does not apply to the "original" cache of scrolls which are in the majority. This is a small subset of the Dead Sea Scrolls housed primarily at one museum.
The new findings don’t cast doubt on the 100,000 real Dead Sea Scroll fragments, most of which lie in the Shrine of the Book, part of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. However, the report’s findings raise grave questions about the “post-2002” Dead Sea Scroll fragments, a group of some 70 snippets of biblical text that entered the antiquities market in the 2000s. Even before the new report, some scholars believed that most to all of the post-2002 fragments were modern fakes.
I'd like to point out (I've seen this confusion elsewhere) that while this is a multimillion dollar fraud and honestly shocking, this does not apply to the "original" cache of scrolls which are in the majority. This is a small subset of the Dead Sea Scrolls housed primarily at one museum.