The Christian Century, January 19th, 1994
SEVEN YEARS after the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, critic Edmund Wilson charged Jewish and Christian scholars with covering up the scrolls' challenges to the faith to protect their livelihoods. Dead wrong, said my professor. Scholars make their livings uncovering embarrassments--that's the path to advancement, good reviews and royalties. And never attribute to malice what you can attribute to lethargy, my professor concluded.
Since Wilson's day, the secular press, usually goaded by iconoclastic writers of books that would undercut standard understandings of faith, has often suggested that r...
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