Unreliable Vaults, Holy Disbelief: Narrative Ethics in Dead Sea Scrolls “News”
National Geographic’s revelation of forgeries in March 2020 concerning “Dead Sea Scroll-like” fragments purchased by the Museum of the Bible is one of the most recent examples in a long media history of ethical consequences facilitated by the absence of provenance narratives. Throughout the media hi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 331-361 |
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Dead Sea scrolls, Qumran Scrolls
/ Forgery
/ Reporting
/ Online media
/ Ethics
/ History 2002-2020
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| IxTheo Classification: | HD Early Judaism HH Archaeology KBL Near East and North Africa NCA Ethics TK Recent history ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Ethics
B Provenance B Narrative B Dead Sea Scrolls B Museum of the Bible B Forgeries B unreliable reporting |
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| Summary: | National Geographic’s revelation of forgeries in March 2020 concerning “Dead Sea Scroll-like” fragments purchased by the Museum of the Bible is one of the most recent examples in a long media history of ethical consequences facilitated by the absence of provenance narratives. Throughout the media history of Dead Sea Scroll reports, rhetorical repetition, invocation of ignorance, and narrative deficiency have characterized articles which rely on placeholders for provenance, as well as the underreporting and under-evaluating of information provided by interviewees. Narrative inquiry and ethical analysis allow for an exploration into how the media – here used as a term to describe professional online news sources accessed by both scholars and non-scholars alike – first facilitated absences, then deficiencies in provenance reporting on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the fragments that claim to be them. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-9214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10059 |