ABSTRACT
The Qimron Document, which had already been the subject of legal battles in the Jerusalem Court, was now aired by Shanks, the editor of the journal, in public at large, in a clear attempt to win sympathy for his case from fellow professionals around the world. During the decade of the 1980s Qimron was engaged mainly in his project of editing and interpreting the Miqsat Ma'ase Hatora, one of the most important finds of Cave 4 in Qumran, in collaboration with Strugnell of Harvard University. Qimron emphasizes the importance of purity in the temple, for those who serve in it or visit it, because defilement of God's Temple was considered sacrilegiously offensive to the Lord. To appreciate the contrast between the hurried publication of fifty texts by Eisenman-Wise in less than two years, Qimron, almost single-hand-edly, but in consultation with colleagues and experts, toiled for eleven years on only one of them, which was ultimately published in 1994.
