[redleghunter]

Solomon Zeitlin Born in either 1892 or more likely 1886, Solomon Zeitlin became professor of rabbinical studies at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. He is noted for having taught in the same classroom at the school for more than five decades without missing a class. He never took notes and would not forget facts. In 1971, a bibliography noted 406 of Zeitlin's works, primarily scholarly articles but also including his three-volume work, The Rise and Fall of the Judean State.

Upon discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940s, he questioned their authenticity and used methods to do so that resembled the field of public relations more than scholarship. Some of his claims have no basis in fact whatsoever, and should be treated purely as speculation.

So he is in a minority of one who argued the authenticity of the Dead Sea scrolls.

[daniel1212]

So he is in a minority of one who argued the authenticity of the Dead Sea scrolls.

Not only, but he denied they were preChristian. Yet we are told (#21) "the only time there were known Jewish Christians in Israel was in the period between 120 and 135." Thus the DSS came after the destruction of the Temple! But the clandestine contender is gone so he escapes answering this.