Subject: Time:2:18 PM OFFICE MEMO Article Available for FTP Date:5/4/94 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. Please cross-post to other appropriate lists. An ASCII text version of the article is available for anonymous FTP from: oi.uchicago.edu. The file is called GOLB_AQ_1994.ascii.txt It is located in the Pub/Papers directory. OR, via World-Wide Web at URL is ftp://oi.uchicago.edu/pub/papers/Golb_AQ_1994.ascii.txt OR, via gopher at University of Chicago Information Server (UCInfo) gopher to: gopher.uchicago.edu in Scholarly Resources in Dead Sea Scrolls - current developments/ The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Ethics of Museology URL is gopher://gopher.uchicago.edu:70/00/uscholarly/deadsea/Golb_AQ_1994.ascii.txt