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The Albuquerque Journal is now free once again though you have to watch a thirty-second ad before being linked to the article.
Was he one of the researchers who hid the scrolls from popular view for decades until the magazine Biblical Archeology Review published translations in the 1980s or 1990s?
Dr. Trever was never part of the group that were considered part of this "conspiracy theory". Unfortunately, controversy makes money. Many books have been written about this subject. It was all a lack of understanding of the incredible amount of work and time required to publish the massive amounts of material, especially 40 thousand fragments of an average of one to two characters each left over from Qumran Cave 4 (later made availabel by the Huntington Library). The original scholars labored long hours on their own dime, for the most part to do what they did. The original team did not want 50 different translations coming out all at the same time and for good reason. Instead, the team was made up of highly competent scholars representing many faiths. The goal was to achieve an unbiased translation using sound scientific principles and being true to history of the time the scrolls were written. Although Dr. Trever wrote numerous professional journal articles and several books (1954-2004, the last being "The Dead Sea Scrolls in Perspective", Bibal 2004) on the subject, he was not part of the original translation team by his own choice. Instead, he was involved with the RSV Bible and teaching. There are now at least 34 volumes of the DJD (Discoveries in the Judean Desert) published, the first of which was published in 1955. It takes a long time. All the materials have now been published or are wrapping up as this is written.