[soc.religion.christian] Dead Sea Scrolls

isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) (01/15/91)

The moderator wrote:

>government has inherited theorical custodianship of the documents.  I
>don't think they want to get involved in this issue, but by not doing
>anything they are effectively taking a stand, so they may not be able
>to avoid it.  What's particularly embarrassing to Israel is that one
>of the major holdouts has recently been making public statements that
>are at least highly anti-Israel if not anti-Semitic.

I am not aware of the Professor in question, who is now in a mental 
hospital, making anti-Israel remarks. I am most certainly aware of 
his making disparaging remarks about Judaism as a religion and Jews
as adherents of that religion. Recent articles of interest on this
topic appeared in Scientific American and the Jerusalem Report.
-- 
``A College degree is a right; not a privilege"

[Anti-Israel in the sense that he believes Israel should not
have been created in the first place.  --clh]