Is a Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript?

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/arts/bible-deuteronomy-discovery.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

We may never know the validity of the authenticity... but this is prime example of how unethical discretions can haunt one’s career. As Uhtred once said “Reputation is All”!

 

Maybe the outcome would have been different if Mr Shapira donated the manuscripts or presented them in a different way. I'm just speculating.
But the accusations of forgery had investigating results.
I'm trilled that the American Israeli scholar Dershowitz makes an even more dramatic claim. The text, which he has reconstructed from 19th-century transcriptions and drawings, is not a reworking of Deuteronomy, he argues, but a precursor to it, dating to the period of the First Temple,