ABSTRACT
When the Qimron-Shanks crisis broke out in the early 1990s, and the controversy between the "cartel" of scholars who were accused of wishing to keep the lid on the slow research and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls series, and the outsiders who pushed for the "liberation" of the scrolls, came to the fore, the world press began to take close and detailed interest in the matter. One of the issues that could easily shake Strugnell out of his complacency and otherwise reasoned and well-measured words, was Professor Norman Golb from the University of Chicago, also an old hand in Judaica, an outsider to the team, who had emitted a stupefying theory that struck at the foundations of the Dead Sea Scrolls research and puzzled all researchers of the scrolls. When the scrolls were discovered, the sensational news was that they were Essene material that was slightly different from the Pharisee Talmud.
