ROM bringing Dead Sea scrolls to Toronto

Controversy does indeed surround this exhibit. See the following items:

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=954321
(National Post article on topic)

http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/dss_revi ... e_2007.pdf
(historian Norman Golb’s critique of San Diego exhibit catalogue)

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=970819
(letter by Michael Hager, director of San Diego museum, attacking Golb)

http://www.nationalpost.com/related/top ... ?id=983256
(Golb’s response to Hager)

http://robertdworkin.wordpress.com/2008 ... e-scrolls/
(article by Robert Dworkin on exhibit controversy)

It is certainly legitimate to ask whether the curators at ROM will follow the prestigious Jewish Museum's lead and admit that there are "two basic theories" of scroll origins, or if they will allow their "guest curator" from San Diego to obfuscate the facts the way she has apparently done before. For additional links (now amounting to an entire press dossier) and commentary on this scandal, see

http://michaelhagerspeaks.wordpress.com/