Friday, March 6, 2009

Faking Dead Sea Scrolls Info

New York prosecutors say the son of Dead Sea Scrolls expert pretended to be someone he’s not in order to promote his dad’s views on the ancient documents. Raphael Haim Golb went online to create fake profiles of influential scholars. He apparently believed his father, University of Chicago professor Norman Golb, wasn’t being taken seriously enough by the antiquities community. The younger Golb could get four years behind bars if convicted.

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