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Details emerging in strange Dead Sea Scrolls case of impersonation

The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that historian Norman Golb has confirmed that his son used a pseudonym when defending Golb's Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship.

The son, Raphael H. Golb, has been charged in New York City with impersonation for allegedly assuming the identity of a scholar in order to discredit him. In an email that was widely distributed the scholar supposedly confesses to plagiarism. The scholar is a longtime critic of Norman Golb's theories about the disputed authorship of the Scrolls.
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