Norman Golb, in The American Scholar (Spring 1989), 1811 Q Street N.W.,

 
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Scrolls from the Dead Sea in 1955, he pop- suggest." ularized-and, indeed, helped to ce-But why were documents containing ment-the established scholarly interpre- this important, if only transitional, shift in tation of their origins. Only 8 years before, Jewish thought buried th...