Årstein Justnes

• Justnes, Årstein (2024). Ghost Scrolls—Rumoured and Longed-for Dead Sea Scrolls. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. ISSN 0901-8328. doi: 10.1080/09018328.2024.2341784.
• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik Andreas; Justnes, Årstein & Deborah, Hilda (2024). A Database of Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments. Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD). 10(1). doi: 10.5334/johd.140. Show summary

  Since 2002, over 100 “new” Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have appeared on the antiquities market. They are commonly described as “post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments”. In this article, we present a comprehensive dataset of these fragments, significantly expanding upon Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar’s landmark article “A Provisional List of Unprovenanced, Twenty-First Century, Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments” from 2017. Even though the fragments are now commonly believed to be modern forgeries, they continue to impact Dead Sea Scrolls research and market-leading Bible study applications like Accordance and Logos. Our open-access database provides a systematic, accessible, and comprehensive repository for the post-2002 fragments and associated data enabling researchers to streamline research efforts and foster collaboration.

• Justnes, Årstein & Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. (2023). “Much Clean Paper for Little Dirty Paper”: The Market for Dead Sea Scrolls in the Twenty-First Century. Journal of Ancient Judaism (JAJ). ISSN 1869-3296. 14(2), p. 222–262. doi: 10.30965/21967954-bja10043. Show summary

  Since 2002, more than 100 “new” Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have surfaced on the antiquities market. They were launched with great stories and soon became big business. In this study, we analyze the market for post-2002 fragments. After a detailed chronological overview of the sales over the last 20 years, we discuss some of the most essential questions related to these sales: How did a market arise for Dead Sea Scrolls in the twenty-first century? What made some fragments especially attractive? How much money has been spent in total? Where did these new fragments come from? We argue that the post-2002 “saga” reads first and foremost as a story about Christian Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Press, Michael David & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Introduction: The Market for Jewish Antiquities. Journal of Ancient Judaism (JAJ). ISSN 1869-3296. 14(2), p. 163–165. doi: 10.30965/21967954-bja10044.
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). Provenance and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Five Examples. In Brodie, Neil; Kersel, Morag M. & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (Ed.), Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Sidestone Press. ISSN 9789464270464. p. 41–57. Show summary

  Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place of original deposition and with no assurance of legal provenance or authenticity. The consequences of these questionable acquisition practices for scholarship and for our understanding of the past are the focus of much enquiry. Recent high-profile acquisitions (and subsequent returns) of text-bearing objects by prominent private collectors and museums and the appearance on the market of demonstrably modern forgeries have resulted in increased scrutiny of the intellectual and commercial impacts of academic engagement. Scholarly research can abet the antiquities market directly or indirectly through identification, authentication and legitimation of illegally traded text-bearing objects. These harmful complications of well-established academic practice raise important questions about how and even if the academy should engage with ancient texts and text-bearing objects of uncertain provenance. Through a wide-ranging set of case studies, variant scholarship focuses on the methodological, theoretical, and ethical dilemmas facing scholars when working with ancient texts in modern contexts. This book is intended for those interested in the historical practices of research into ancient manuscripts, ethical quandaries in studying unprovenanced textual materials, and the unintended consequences of scholarly interactions with problematic text-bearing objects.

• Rasmussen, Josephine Munch & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Tales of Saviours and Iconoclasts: On The Provenance of “The Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism” . Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA). ISSN 0065-0900. 32(18), p. 125–146. doi: 10.5617/acta.9023.
• Justnes, Årstein & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (2021). More Dubious Dead Sea Scrolls: Four Pre-2002 Fragments in the Schøyen Collection. Dead Sea Discoveries. ISSN 0929-0761. 28(1), p. 20–37. doi: 10.1163/15685179-bja10001. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. (2020). Making the Donald Born Again: Donald Trump’s ‘Conversion’. In Lie, Sissel; Vegge, Tor & Sandhaug, Christina (Ed.), The Mimesis of Change: Conversion and Peripety in Life Stories. Fabrizio Serra Editore. ISSN 978-88-3315-231-8. p. 157–166. Show summary

  Oral, scripted and pictorial art has from its beginnings been focused on the lives of outstanding heroes and human beings: highborn men and women and their prowess, achievements, and errors of judgement and their consequences. Such life stories involve a reversal in the narrated events that provide an example to the listener, reader or spectator, enabling them to avoid repeating the protagonist s errors. By showing the effects of error and the reversals it produces, these narratives teach the audiences to change their ways and convert to a new kind of life. In its more general sense conversion simply means a passage of one state to another, usually centering on a turning point; it may be based on personal choice and conviction, or it may occur as the result of outside forces or events. The articles in this volume collectively demonstrate the ontological complexity of such change and the mimetic representation thereof; they represent different aspects of what the Editors term «the mimesis of change» in the real or fictional lives of characters, exploring how writers and artists deploy the device of peripety to depict personal, social, political, spiritual, artistic and intellectual changes. They also explore the many forms this mimesis of change can take: narratives in letters, tales and autobiographical accounts; images in the shape of poetic moments and paintings; dramatized representation in drama, theatre and spectacle. Finally, since the articles study the mimesis of such change, and not simply the change itself, reception becomes a central theme. It is the purpose of peripety to lead to recognition and change also on the part of the audience of readers and spectators, whether this change takes the shape of the shameful admittance of sin or the relief of a lucky escape

• Justnes, Årstein & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (2020). Hazon Gabriel: A Display of Negligence. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR). ISSN 0003-097X. 384(1), p. 69–76. doi: 10.1086/709464.
• Vegge, Tor & Justnes, Årstein (2019). Forhandlinger med «grunnteksten»: Bibelselskapets nyere oversettelser av Det nye testamentet. In Eggen, Nora S.; Zandjani, Nina & Østmoe, Tor Ivar (Ed.), Gjenoversettelse av hellige tekster. Hermes Academic Publishing and Bookshop A/S. ISSN 978-82-8034-204-1. p. 41–53.

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• Justnes, Årstein (2024). The Lying Pen of Scribes Toppforsk (2019–2024): Tre historier om avvisning – og hva de kan lære oss om å lede forskning. Show summary

  https://mf.no/en/events/mf-casr-lunch-talk-arstein-justnes

• Justnes, Årstein (2024). A New RCN Project? Airing Airy Thoughts.
• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A.; Justnes, Årstein & Deborah, Hilda (2024). A Database of Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments.
• Justnes, Årstein & Elgvin, Torleif (2023). A Sudden Clink from the Missing Link: The Yaḥad Ostracon Revisited .
• Elgvin, Torleif & Justnes, Årstein (2023). With Razor Blade, Knife or Sharp Tools:Cutting the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). Stressreduksjon og mindfulness.
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). The Lying Pen of Scribes (2019–2024): Results and Achievements Four Years into the Project.
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). The Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism: The Collectors, the Scholars, and the Lies.
• Justnes, Årstein & Ekroll, Charlotte (2023). A Sudden Clink from the Missing Link: The History of the So-called Yaḥad Ostracon from Qumran .
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). From Qumran Caves to Swiss Vaults: Traveling “Dead Sea Scrolls” Fragments .
• Stordalen, Lena Caroline; Hægeland, Signe Marie & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Jakten på de tapte Dødehavsrullene. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land. Show summary

  Saken ble publisert digitalt 24. februar på vl.no

• Justnes, Årstein & Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. (2023). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller.
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Monger, Matthew Phillip; Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Tapte fragmenter [podcast]. [Internet]. https://pod.space/dodehavsrullene/lying-pen-of-scribes-ep03.
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Lande, Dana Ryan & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Hvordan lansere et falskt dødehavsrullfragment? [podcast]. [Internet]. https://pod.space/dodehavsrullene/lying-pen-of-scribes-ep02.
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Elgvin, Torleif; Gimse, Ingrid Breilid; Justnes, Årstein & Press, Michael David (2023). Dødehavsrullene – en innføring (podcast). [Internet]. https://pod.space/dodehavsrullene/lying-pen-of-scribes-ep-01.
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). Når Bibelen blir svindel og bedrag.
• Forberg, Thor Eivind & Justnes, Årstein (2022). Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism. Show summary

  https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/dei-buddhistiske-doedehavsrullane

• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A.; Justnes, Årstein & Reed, Stephen Alan (2022). The Digitalisation of the Dead Sea Scrolls Inventory Project: Lists of Documents, Photographs and Museum Plates. Show summary

  In 1988, the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont initiated the Dead Sea Scrolls Inventory Project to make a complete inventory of the scroll documents, photographs, and museum inventory numbers. Stephen A. Reed produced 14 fascicles for the project, which are digitalised at https://lyingpen.uia.no/.

• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Stresshåndtering og tilstedeværelse i arbeidslivet .
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Authenticity, Provenance, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Part I).
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Bruk av KFU-midler i eget forskningsarbeid.
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Show summary

  https://teol.ku.dk/arrangementer/arrangementer2022/doedehavsrullerne--75-aar-efter-fundene-i-oerkenen-1947-2022/

• Justnes, Årstein & Hægeland, Signe M (2022). Lost and Inaccessible Dead Sea Scroll Fragments.
• Justnes, Årstein & Hægeland, Signe M (2022). Missing: Have You Seen These Scrolls? Biblical Archeology Review. ISSN 0098-9444. 48(3), p. 23–24.
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). The Lying Pen of Scribes: Fake, Lost, Rumoured, and Unprovenanced Dead Sea Scrolls and Fragments.
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Dødehavsrullene.
• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. & Justnes, Årstein (2022). A Database of Post-2002 Fragments: Recent Developments.
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller.
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). The Market for Dead Sea Scrolls (1990–2020) .
• Justnes, Årstein & Loge, Julia (2022). Kunstig kunnskap. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Forskerforum.
• Justnes, Årstein; Hægeland, Signe M & Stomnås, Martin S. (2022). On the Origin of the Pieces: The Provenance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Show summary

  Årstein Justnes in collaboration with Signe M Hægeland and Martin S. Stomnås. Version 1.2 (14 January 2022)

• Justnes, Årstein & Hægeland, Signe M (2022). The Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation and Foundation on Judaism and Christian Origins: Key Figures.
• Kvåle, Gunhild; Justnes, Årstein & Gimse, Ingrid Breilid (2021). Å forske på Dødehavsrullene. [Internet]. Colletts Kafé (podcast).
• Justnes, Årstein & Stomnås, Martin S. (2021). The Dead Sea Scroll Fragments in Paris.
• Halverson, Sandra Louise & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Digital research networks and collaboration: opportunities and challenges.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Final panel discussion: “Changing Hands, Changing Meanings”.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Dødehavsrullene.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Lost Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments. Show summary

  In collaboration with Signe M Hægeland and Martin S. Stomnås

• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Jesaja i Dødehavsrullene og Det nye testamentet.
• Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Once Lost, but Now (Pro)found: On the Construction of An Early Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Goncharenko, Igor & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Fallgruver og muligheter for åpen publisering — et forskers perspektiv [på engelsk].
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Oppmerksomhetstrening.
• Justnes, Årstein & Mjølsneset, Marit (2021). Professor saksøkt for salg av stjålne bibelfragment. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Rumours of Dead Sea Scrolls in the 21th Century.
• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. & Justnes, Årstein (2021). A Database of Post-2002 Fragments. Show summary

  Since 2002, more than 80 new Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments have appeared on the antiquities market. The researchers in the Lying Pen of Scribes have made great effort in tracking and cataloging these fragments. The database is made in collaboration with Martin Stomnås.

• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Presentasjon av «Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities».
• Hægeland, Signe M; Stuestøl, Martin S & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Lost Dead Sea Scrolls: A Database: Launching of version 1.0.
• Hægeland, Signe M; Stuestøl, Martin S & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Lost Dead Sea Scroll Fragments: A Database [Version 1.0].
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Ledelse av panel med Neil Brodie, Michael Press, Raha Rafii, Christopher Prescott og Rick Bonnie: “Fake, lost and manipulated objects and manuscripts: How does it involve and affect research?”.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Rushing in Where Angels and Scholars Fear to Tread: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Provenance.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Stress, balanse og medfølelse under en pandemi.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Om nytt funn av dødehavsrullfragmenter. [Radio]. P2 Nyhetsettermiddag.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). False Prophets: How to forge a Dead Sea Scroll (by Madeleine Schwartz). [Journal]. Harper's Magazine.
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Proof that Job Doesn’t Quite Work? 11QtgJob (11Q10) and PAM 43.796–43.799 .
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Making the Dead Sea Scrolls Super Expensive and Brill-iant (yet) Again: A Presentation and Discussion of Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts and Dead Sea Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts (Brill).
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). The PAMfilius Database: An Updated Update.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Presentasjon av the Lying Pen of Scribes Toppforsk.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). PAM Photo Workshop.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The PAMfilius Database.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The PAMfilius Project.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The Tel Dan Inscription and the Yearning for King David.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Show summary

  Grunnet covid-19 ble forelesningen holdt for to ganger 11:30 og 13:00.

• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Undervisning og forskning i coronaens tid.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). A White Dead Sea Scroll, Boxes of Ancient Fragments,and a Nocturnal Clandestine Meeting.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). More Profound than Goat Lost and Found: The Provenance of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The Tel Dan Inscription: A Modern Forgery?
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Introduction to the Conference.
• Justnes, Årstein; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch; Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Grønli, Kristin S. (2020). Bibelsk svindel gav smertefull sjølvransaking. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Forskningsetikk.
• Grønli, Kristin Straumsheim & Justnes, Årstein (2020). Bibelsk svindel gav smertefull sjølransaking. [Business/trade/industry journal]. Forskningsetikk.
• Justnes, Årstein & Guttormsen, Arne (2020). Oxford-professor arrestert for bibeltyveri. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
• Justnes, Årstein & Kleivan, Nikolai Melamed (2020). Er dette forfalskeren? [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
• Kleivan, Nikolai Melamed & Justnes, Årstein (2020). Løgner avslørt på bibelmuseum. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
• Larsen, Arne Martin & Justnes, Årstein (2020). Forskning med store medieoppslag. [Internet]. uia.no.
• David, Ariel & Justnes, Årstein (2020). After Dead Sea Forgeries Exposed, How Do We Know the Scrolls in Israel Are Authentic? [Newspaper]. Haaertz.
• Justnes, Årstein & Greshko, Michael (2020). Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries. [Internet]. National Geographic.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). A Sudden Clink from the Missing Link: The History and Provenance of the Yahad Ostracon.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Dødehavsrullene.
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Nabonidus, Prayer of (4Q242/4QPrNab). In Stuckenbruck, Loren & Gurtner, Daniel M. (Ed.), T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volumes I and II. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISSN 9780567661449. p. 388–389.
• Justnes, Årstein (2019). Vi må snu hver stein. [Newspaper]. Morgenbladet.
• Justnes, Årstein & Guttormsen, Arne (2019). Sviende oppgjør med bibelbusiness . [Newspaper]. Vårt Land. Show summary

  https://reportasje.vl.no/artikkel/1234-sviende-oppgjor-med-bibelbusiness

• Justnes, Årstein (2019). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller.
• Rasmussen, Josephine Munch & Justnes, Årstein (2019). Critical Provenance Research: Towards a Definition.
• Justnes, Årstein & Leer-Salvesen, Tarjei (2019). Bokslipp med sprengkraft. [Newspaper]. Fædrelandsvennen.
• Justnes, Årstein (2019). Lanseringsforelesning: De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller.
• Lie, Andreas Thorsen & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Vitenskapelig assistent i The Lying Pen of Scribes. uia.no.
• Sherko, Lasko Tagarani & Justnes, Årstein (2022). Ishmael-papyruset: Hvor kommer det fra? . Universitetet i Agder. Show summary

  https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/ishmael-papyruset-hvor-kommer-det-fra

• Justnes, Årstein & Stomnås, Martin S. (2021). Dødehavsrullene i bilder - og i endring. uia.no. Show summary

  https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/doedehavsrullene-i-bilder-og-i-endring

• Hægeland, Signe M & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Forsvunnede Dødehavsrullfragmenter . UiA. Show summary

  Rapport fra Studenter i forskning-prosjekt https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/forsvunnede-doedehavsrullfragmenter

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