The Los Angeles Times carried an interesting report last week, by Mike Boehm, on the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit taking place at the San Diego Natural History Museum. They asked the curator, Dr. Risa Levitt Kohn, why the museum has carefully excluded all scholars who oppose the old, and increasingly contested, theory of Scroll origins from the lecture series accompanying the exhibit, and she came up with a good reply--"You don't want to confuse people with so many competing theories, so they walk away, saying, 'Well, nobody really knows anything!'" I for one find that extremely convincing. The last thing in the world...