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The headline is: "'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries" Your quoted excerpt says: "independent researchers funded by the Museum of t
by danso 7y ago
The headline is: "'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries"
Your quoted excerpt says: "independent researchers funded by the Museum of the Bible announced that all 16 of the museum’s Dead Sea Scroll fragments are modern forgeries that duped outside collectors, the museum’s founder, and some of the world’s leading biblical scholars"
What is it that you think the headline should say?
- gwd 7y ago"Museum of the Bible determine that all of their Dead Sea Scrolls are forgeries"
- lostlogin 7y agoA third party made the finding, so if we are being making pedantic alteration to the headline, shouldn’t we avoid this inaccuracy?
- colechristensen 7y agoMuseum of the Bible discovers it's Dead Sea Scrolls fragments are all forgeries The important difference is the implication in the headline needs to be that the Museum is discovering this instead of the Museum defrauding people
- sgift 7y agoThe headline is fine. Reading it in the spirit of "the museum is defrauding people and we found out about it" is extremely uncharitable and nitpicky.
- danso 7y agoSure, I guess I automatically interpret the connotation of "forgeries" and a museum as referring to a museum being the defrauded, since they typically are either given or acquiring exhibits, and less often are selling/trading them.
- burlesona 7y agoThe original headline read something more like “museum discovers all Dead Sea scroll fragments are forgeries,” which I read and initially thought “really? The Dead Sea scrolls are fake?” Then I read the article and realized it was only about a few fragments in some museum in DC, which I had never even heard of. So to me, the headline was much spicier than the article. It had grammatical ambiguity that I thought was a little misleading.