By Årstein Justnes[first version was published 19 August 2016] 2003Exhibition CatalogueBiondi, Lee. From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Forbidden Book: A History of the Bible. Dallas.[“Genesis Commentary”/“Genesis Midrash” = Words from Genesis 22, no DSS F.–number; “Isaiah 26:19–21” = Isa 26:19–27:1, no DSS F.–number] 2004Exhibition CatalogueBiondi, Lee. The Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America:… Read More A Lightly Annotated Chronological Bibliography of the Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments

[First version: 11 August 2016] [Organized According to the Protestant Old Testament Canon] This list builds upon Eibert Tigchelaar’s authoritative list, “A Provisional List of Unprovenanced, Twenty-First Century, Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments” (version 1.0; April 16, 2016; version 2; September 18, 2016), but is organized differently. Statistical observations NB! Only the fragments that have been… Read More A List of Unprovenanced Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments

Program: Dead sea scrolls as physical artefacts

1999 Gross, Netty C. “The Mystery of the Angel Scroll: Find of the Century or Elaborate Hoax?” The Jerusalem Report, 11 October [prepublished online earlier? 26 Sept?]: 40–44. Reeves, Phil. “Missing Dead Sea Scroll ‘Is Found at Last’.” The Independent, 26 September. Laub, Karin. “Scroll Said Resembles Sea Scrolls.” Washington Post, 27 September. Pfann, Stephen.… Read More The Angel Scroll: A Fragmentary Chronological Bibliography

Monday, 22 February 2021, 13:00 – 18:00 CET An open one-day workshop gathering Dead Sea Scrolls experts and scholars in analytical and scientific imaging methods.  The workshop is organized as part of The Lying Pen of Scribes – Manuscript Forgeries, Digital Imaging, and Critical Provenance Research (RCN FRIPRO Toppforsk 2019-2024 (https://lyingpen.uia.no/about/). Considering the impact of… Read More Workshop on Scientific Imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls

By Årstein Justnes [first version: 2 October 2018] 2007 Yardeni, Ada and Binyamin Elizur. “A First-Century BCE Prophetic Text Written on a Stone: First Publication [Hebrew].” Cathedra 123: 155–66. Knohl, Israel. “In Three Days, You Shall Live.” Ha’aretz, 19 April. Knohl, Israel. “Studies in the Gabriel Revelation [Hebrew].” Tarbiz 76: 303–28. Justnes, Årstein. “Verdens første forskerseminar om… Read More The Gabriel Stone: A Chronological Bibliography

By Årstein Justnes Christian Brady, “New Genesis Text from the Judaean Desert,” Targuman, 17 July 2007: → “Today James Charlesworth presented an image of a fragment (in two parts) that he acquired on 25 October 2006. He said it had been in Zurich since the 50’s and reportedly came from Kando.” → “AMSC14 dates it… Read More The Flexible Provenance of the Museum of the Bible Genesis “Dead Sea Scrolls” Fragment (Gen 31:23–25[?]; 32:3–6, DSS F.191): Three Snapshots

Updated Programme [University of Agder, A7-001] 8:45–9:00 Fruit, coffee, and tea   9:00–9:15 Prof. Årstein Justnes, University of Agder Introduction and welcome   Session I, chair: Prof. Tor Vegge, University of Agder 9:15–10:15 Prof. Michael Langlois, University of Strasbourg “At the Beginning: Early Issues of Authenticity, Provenance and Acquisition of the Scrolls”   10:15-10:30 Short… Read More Conference, 13th of March, 2020 NB! Cancelled #Corona

  Date Room Lectures  22 February [9:00–9:45] A7 001 Dr. Hilda Deborah, NTNU: “The Dead Sea Scrolls, Digital Imaging, and Artificial Intelligence” 9 March [13:00–14:00] A7 001 Prof. Stephen A Reed, University of Jamestown: “Dead Sea Texts as Artifacts—Back to the Fragments”

University of Agder, Rom A 7 006 10.00–10.30 Nils Hallvard Korsvoll, NTNU, “How Provenance Can Be a Casualty in Classical Philology” 10.30–10.45 Tor Vegge, “Teaching and Writing Letters: Formal Relations between Language of Letters and Language of Teaching” 10.45–11.00 Krsitine Toft Rosland, “What Fanfiction Can Teach Us about Secret Books” 11.00–11.15 Christa Wirth, “Locating Anthropologists… Read More Open Seminar 29 November