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Biblical Forgery and Academic Authentication: Persisting Patterns of Guile and Gullibility

by Jonathan Klawans

Recurring patterns in the authentication of biblical forgeries

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Recurring patterns in the authentication of biblical forgeries

Jonathan Klawans examines how academic authentication has intersected with biblical forgeries, connecting several episodes across more than a century. The cases include the Dead Sea Scroll fragments published in 2016, inscriptions said to have been found in America and the Deuteronomy manuscripts offered for sale by Moses Wilhelm Shapira in 1883. By bringing these incidents together, the book frames them as part of a recurring dynamic of trust and deception, rather than as isolated controversies. Its subject is both the forged objects and the scholarly judgments that helped shape their reception.

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  • Readers interested in biblical scholarship and the history of ancient texts.
  • Readers studying forgery, authentication, or the role of academic judgment.
  • Readers seeking a connected account of several biblical-forgery controversies.

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Biblical forgeryAcademic authenticationScholarly judgmentTrust and deception

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Biblical Forgery and Academic Authentication describes and decries the roles academics have played in the authentication of biblical forgeries. The most notorious recent incident is surely the 2016 publication of thirteen minuscule Dead Sea Scroll fragments displayed in the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, quickly determined to be clever forgeries. Additional episodes range from Cyrus Gordon's 1970s authentications of supposedly ancient Hebrew inscriptions discovered in America to more recent trusting re-evaluations of the suspicious Deuteronomy manuscripts offered for sale by Moses Wilhelm Shapira in 1883.

While various articles and books have focused on one incident or another, no recent monograph has tried to grasp the larger, repeating dynamic of academic naivet
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