The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) is becoming an expert in contaminating and, in the words of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “manhandling” objects in its possession.
We have already reported (http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOossuary_Krumbeinsummary.asp) how the IAA has contaminated with a red putty-like substance the ossuary (bone box) on which is engraved “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” (An IAA committee declared the inscription a forgery, but leading paleographers have pronounced it authentic.)
More recently, the IAA cut a chunk out of a Dead Sea Scroll fragment of Leviticus obtained by Scroll scholar Hanan Eshel from Bedouin looters who found the fragment in a cave in the Judean Desert.
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