“…the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has matured into a full-dress academic discipline with a huge number of publications…”

I think we scholars who are devoting our lives to the study of the scrolls can be grateful for another reason to the initial team of scholars who resisted disclosure of the texts of the scrolls. Without them, it is highly unlikely that the scrolls would have generated such immense public interest, which, in turn, has led to a series of exhibitions, documentaries and conferences that has been of great advantage to the field. And the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has matured into a full-dress academic discipline with a huge number of publications, from books and monographs to articles in numerous scholarly journals. Two journals are devoted solely to dealing with scholarly issues involving the scrolls.

Lawrence Schiffman, “A Short History of the Dead Sea Scrolls and What They Tell Us”, Biblical Archaeological Review (May/June 2015), 49-50.