March
14
/ 2020
Washington DC’s Museum of the Bible was opened in 2017 and has since charged its victims customers $24.99 to see an exhibition of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and a collection of biblical era texts, including the oldest known surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible. Now, the Museum has announced that all 16 of the museum ’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are “modern forgeries.” The authentic Dead Sea Scrolls trace back to their discovery in 1947 when Bedouin herders discovered scores of clay jars in Palestine ’s Qumran caves containing thousands of 1,800-year-old scrolls, and this recent scam has blurred and confused scientists, since the forgeries first emerged in 2002. But rather than owning to these crimes the Museum
