Born: 1886
Died: 1976
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dead Sea Scrolls debunker

Born in either 1892 or 1886, Solomon Zeitlin became professor of rabbinical studies at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. Upon discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1940's, he questioned their authenticity and used methods to do so that resembled the field of public relations more than scholarship. Some of his claims have no basis in fact whatsoever, and should be treated purely as speculation.

Is the subject of books:
Solomon Zeitlin: Scholar Laureate -- An Annotated Bibliography, 1915-1970, 1971, BY: Sidney B. Hoenig

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