|
< Back to Raphael Golb Guilty of Impersonating Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar Raphael Golb Guilty of Impersonating Dead Sea Scrolls ScholarRaphael Golb’s Conviction Talkback Add Your Comment
 Manhattan lawyer Raphael Golb convicted of impersonating, harassing NYU Dead Sea Scrolls professor
by Melissa Grace, from New York Daily News
October 1, 2010
A Manhattan lawyer was convicted Thursday of impersonating and harassing a prominent NYU Dead Sea Scrolls professor—his dad's academic rival.
Raphael Golb sat stock still as the Manhattan forewoman said "guilty" 30 times, clearing the real estate lawyer of just one misdemeanor count after five hours of deliberations.
"I'm stoic," Golb said later, collapsing on a bench outside the court room. He vowed to appeal, claiming the judge was biased against him.
His lawyer said the verdict trampled on free speech rights.
"Today what happened was the district attorney of New York County and the trial court made hurting somebody's feelings a criminal act," defense lawyer Ronald Kuby said. "In New York, hurting people's feelings or being annoying is not a crime. We call that Monday."
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. called Golb a coward who stole his victim's identities and hid behind them in a "sock-puppet" campaign against five scholars. The targeted academics disagreed with his father on the origins of the 2,000-year-old scrolls, considered the earliest form of the Bible.
Golb, who faces up to four years in prison, admitted he created email accounts in the name of NYU Prof. Lawrence Schiffman and others and described the mass mailings he sent out as parody.
"This isn't a guy who is shopping on eBay and writing nasty emails," Assistant District Attorney John Bandler told jurors in his closing arguments.
Raphael Golb's SentencingThere has been an update in the case. Raphael Golb has filed an appeal - here is the brief. http://raphaelgolbtrialtranscripts.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/raphael-golb-appeal-brief-filed/ • • • • • • • Raphael Golb's E-mails"Signing his name as Schiffman, Raphael Golb made it appear that Schiffman was confessing to having plagiarized from Raphael Golb’s father, Norman." Raphael Golb wrote his e-mails in a humourous style that made it obvious they were not from Lawrence Schiffman. Dr Schiffman's colleagues, to whom the e-mails were sent, described them as "weird", according to a witness for the prosecution, Dean Stimpson of New York University. This in no way deserved a criminal prison sentence. • • • • • • • Raphael Golb's account of his trialcan be downloaded at: http://www.sirpeterscott.com/images/golbstatement.pdf • • • • • • • Correct link to Norman Golb's articleIt took me a while to find Professor Golb's article, because the link posted by Howard Fredrics is wrong. The correct link is: http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/schiffman_response_2010nov30.pdf • • • • • • • Correct link to Norman Golb's articleIt took me a while to find Professor Golb's article, because the link posted above is wrong. The correct link is: http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/schiffman_response_2010nov30.pdf • • • • • • • Correct link to Dr. Golb's articleIt took me a while to find Norman Golb's article on Lawrence Schiffman's "confidential letter," because the link posted by Howard Fredrics appears to have a typographical mistake in it. The correct link is: http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/schiffman_response_2010nov30.pdf • • • • • • • Golb ConvictionFor another point of view on the underlying issues at hand in the Golb case, read Prof. Norman Golb's response to the "confidential" letter written by Prof. Lawrence Schiffman to NYU officials. For those interested in reading Prof. Norman Golb's response to a "confidential" letter written by Prof. Lawrence Schiffman to NYU officials. http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/schiffman_responce_2010nov30.pdf • • • • • • • |
 The Biblical Archaeology Society is an educational non-profit 501c(3) organization. Make a tax-deductable gift today. BRAND NEWTel Aviv University Scholars Discuss Jewelry Discovery at Megiddo May 23, 2012 Jerusalem Cabinet Invests in Biblical Sites in Jerusalem May 21, 2012 Oil Pipeline Threatens Ancient Babylon and World Cultural Heritage May 18, 2012 Babylonian Talmud Translated into Arabic May 17, 2012 4,000 Year Old Texts Survive the Attacks of Time and 9/11 May 16, 2012 MOST POPULARA New Dead Sea Scroll in Stone? Why Is the Newest Bible Translation in Modern Hebrew? What Jews (and Christians too) Should Know About the New Testament FREE BIBLE AND ARCHAEOLOGY ARTICLESAncient Inscription Refers to Birth of Israelite Monarchy FIRST PERSON: Relics vs. “Real” Archaeology BIBLICAL VIEWS: Spirited Discourse About God Language in the New Testament ARCHAEOLOGICAL VIEWS: An Anthropologist’s View of Early Israel THE BIBLE IN THE NEWS: Self-Help for Doctors and Others SCHOLAR’S STUDYA Minimalist Disputes His Demise February 19, 2012 Allan J. Pantuck: Response to Tselikas Handwriting Analysis August 19, 2011 Agamemnon Tselikas: Response to Allan J. Pantuck August 19, 2011 Oded Golan’s Commentary on the Expert Witnesses of the Case March 2011
 FREE Downloadable E-BooksTen Top Biblical Archaeology Discoveries |
INFORMATION |
PUBLICATIONS |
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY NETWORK LINKS |
