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In his just-published article, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Ethics of
Museology, (Aspen Institute Quarterly, Spring 1994), Norman Golb of the
University of Chicago examines the recent American exhibitions of the Scrolls
against the criteria of equity and excellence emphasized by the American
Association of Museums.  He states that, despite, high esthetic standards in
the presentations, the public has been seriously misled by the exhibitions,
particularly the one that closed in January at the New York Public Library;
contrary to commonly accepted standards of museology in force in America and
Europe, the exhibit presented a highly partisan view  of the Scrolls rather
than equitably describing various interpretations of their origin and meaning.
He cites various efforts of the Library's exhibit evidently geared to
convincing the general public of the truth of the original theory that Essenic
sectarians occupied Khirbet Qumran and wrote or copied scrolls there.
 
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