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FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1990
n attack by the editor
of Biblical Ar-
cheological Review on
a professor at the Baltimore
Hebrew University has in-
censed both that professor
and the president of the uni-
versity.
In the March/April issue of
the Review, editor Hershel
Shanks accuses Prof. Joseph
Baumgarten of being part of
a conspiracy of scholars that
has been suppressing access
to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Shanks' attack on
Baumgarten is part of his
continuing criticism of what
he considers to be the lag-
gardly pace of the Scrolls'
release to the general com-
munity of scholars.
In reaction to Shanks'
broadside against
Baumgarten, Leivy Smolar,
president of the Baltimore
Hebrew University (BHU),
said Shanks' "graphic and
verbal lambasting of people
is simply a way of keeping
his press going for a couple
of issues."
"What is most telling
about Shanks' attitude,"
said Smolar, "is the cartoon
to depict scholars who do not
subscribe to the Shanks' cir-
cus."
The Biblical Archae-
ological Review illustration
to which Smolar referred
depicted Baumgarten as a
puppet whose strings were
manipulated by J.T. Milik,
the man who controls access
to the Dead Sea Scrolls. As
Baumgarten speaks in the
illustration at what appears
to be an academic sym-
posium, seated at the dais
are four other Milik-
controlled "puppets" — two
Harvard professors and offi-
cials at Israel's Authorities
Department and Shrine of
the Book.
"Over the years," said
Smolar, "Shanks has taken
what was a fine scholarly
journal and turned it into
the National Enquirer of
biblical literature."
From Jerusalem,
Baumgarten, a professor of
rabbinic literature and in-
stitutions, commented that
"having joined the team of
. . . editors [working on the
scrolls] only recently, it is
not my duty to offer
apologies for the pace of
Scroll publication in the
past."
"The most precious com-
modity essential for research
is time," said Baumgarten,
"time for study and for
reflection."
Since late January,
Baumgarten has been con-
ducting his research on the
scrolls at Israel's Hebrew
University while on a sab-
batical from the Baltimore
Hebrew University. He will
return to Baltimore in late
April.
Shanks's four-page Review
article is entitled "Dead Sea
Scroll on 'Show and Tell' —
It's Called 'Tell, But No
Show.' " In it, he writes that
Baumgarten rejected a re-
quest last October from a
professor in England who
wanted access to the portion
of the Dead Sea Scrolls
which Baumgarten has been
authorized to translate and
study.
In 1989, J.T. Milik, a
former Polish priest who has
controlled access to the
scrolls for almost 35 years,
assigned the so-called
Damascus Documents to
Baumgarten. In a letter sent