In December 1991, a two-volume edition of Dead Sea Scroll photographs was issued by the Biblical Archaeology Society, an American group headed by Hershel Shanks

Emphasises on legal and moral aspects of intellectual property law as it relates to works of historical reconstruction. This book poses questions about whether Qimron's work constitutes something original, the fruit of his creativity versus whether it is a copy of an ancient blurred text, in the public domain, reconstructed by another author.