Forgeries & Fake News in the Dead Sea Scrolls" with Nate Ramsayer
Thu, Apr 10
|The Jenks Center
Time & Location
Apr 10, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT
The Jenks Center, 109 Skillings Rd, Winchester, MA 01890, USA
About the Event
Buyer beware! The antiquities market in the 2010s has been flooded with fragmentary copies of Dead Sea Scrolls—but are these authentic? As recently as 2020 forgeries from Israel have made international headlines, especially with the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC. How do scholars know which ones are fake?
Jenks favorite Nate Ramsayer will conclude his seven-part series Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls with this final talk about recent scholarship and discoveries. He will also address the burning question: what else is out there in the caves? Are there more scrolls to be found? Feel free to join, even if you have missed previous sessions!
Sponsored by a generous donation from a Jenks Patron.