Who Wrote The Dead Sea Scrolls?
 * Part I - A new Theory of Scroll Origins *#The Qumran Plateau *# The Manuscripts of the Jews *# 1947; The First Scroll Discoveries *# The Qumran-Essene Theory: A paradigm reconsidered *# The Copper Scroll, the Masada manuscripts, and the Siege of Jerusalem *# Scroll origins: Rengstorf's Theory and Edmund Wilson's response * Part II - Science, Politics, and the Dead Sea Scrolls *# The Temple Scroll, the Acts of Torah, and the Qumranologists' dilemma *# Power Politics and the Collapse of the Scrolls Monopoly *#:This chapter discusses Géza Vermes' involvement in the purchase of photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Oxford University under the condition that they only be shown to scholars selected by the official editorial team that controlled access to the scrolls. Golb states that "Vermes could not possibly have avoided knowing of the financial agreement that facilitated the transfer of photographs" (p.&nbsp;236), and that Vermes' statement of November 8, 1991, "directly contradicted the position taken by him and the [Oxford] Centre in the [London] Times correspondence published three months earlier" (p.&nbsp;237). The chapter also describes how Vermes used the media "to promote his support for the traditional Essene hypothesis," but showed "disdain" for the similar use of the media by Dr. Robert Eisenman to promote a different view (p.&nbsp;241). *# Myth and Science in the World of Qumranology *# The deepening Scrolls Controversy *# The New York Conference and Some Academic Intrigues *# The importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls