Årstein Justnes

• Justnes, Årstein & Deborah, Hilda (2026). Reimagining the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Position Paper. Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications (DHNB Publications). 8(2). doi: 10.5617/dhnbpub.13100. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2025). Ultimately Not Important? The Publication of the Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-Like Fragments. In Bakker, Arjen F.; Brooke, George J; Hartog, Barry; Najman, Hindy; Popović, Mladen & Hecke, Pierre Van (Ed.), Missing Pieces: Essays in Honour of Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004727298. p. 271–287. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2024). From Qumran Caves to Swiss Vaults Unprovenanced Dead Sea Scrolls-Like Fragments and Transformative Travels. Dead Sea Discoveries. ISSN 0929-0761. 31(3), p. 267–291. doi: 10.1163/15685179-bja10052. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2024). Ghost Scrolls—Rumoured and Longed-for Dead Sea Scrolls. Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. ISSN 0901-8328. 38(2), p. 358–390. doi: 10.1080/09018328.2024.2341784. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  There are myriads of bank boxes and vaults in the world and judging by some of the stories under scrutiny in this article, many of them contain Dead Sea Scrolls. The article analyses tales linked to three so-called ghost scrolls whilst focussing on contemporary manuscript tales as a phenomenon: What characterises such stories? How are they developed, kept alive, and passed down? What are their functions? I will argue that these tales serve as adaptable templates for market players and bring colour and glamor to the grey market. The ghost scroll is not so much a container of text as a placeholder for hype, dreams and longing. It influences contemporary academic imaginations, expectations, desires and affects scholars’ interpretational frames.

• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik Andreas; Justnes, Årstein & Deborah, Hilda (2024). A Database of Post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments. Journal of Open Humanities Data. 10(1). doi: 10.5334/johd.140. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Since 2002, over 100 “new” Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have appeared on the antiquities market. They are commonly described as “post-2002 Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments”. In this article, we present a comprehensive dataset of these fragments, significantly expanding upon Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar’s landmark article “A Provisional List of Unprovenanced, Twenty-First Century, Dead Sea Scrolls-like Fragments” from 2017. Even though the fragments are now commonly believed to be modern forgeries, they continue to impact Dead Sea Scrolls research and market-leading Bible study applications like Accordance and Logos. Our open-access database provides a systematic, accessible, and comprehensive repository for the post-2002 fragments and associated data enabling researchers to streamline research efforts and foster collaboration.

• Justnes, Årstein (2023). Provenance and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Five Examples. In Brodie, Neil; Kersel, Morag M. & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (Ed.), Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Sidestone Press. ISSN 9789464270464. p. 41–57. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Since the eighteenth century, many if not most ancient and medieval manuscripts or other text-bearing or associated objects have been procured through imperial expropriation or through the antiquities market with little or no evidence of findspot or place of original deposition and with no assurance of legal provenance or authenticity. The consequences of these questionable acquisition practices for scholarship and for our understanding of the past are the focus of much enquiry. Recent high-profile acquisitions (and subsequent returns) of text-bearing objects by prominent private collectors and museums and the appearance on the market of demonstrably modern forgeries have resulted in increased scrutiny of the intellectual and commercial impacts of academic engagement. Scholarly research can abet the antiquities market directly or indirectly through identification, authentication and legitimation of illegally traded text-bearing objects. These harmful complications of well-established academic practice raise important questions about how and even if the academy should engage with ancient texts and text-bearing objects of uncertain provenance. Through a wide-ranging set of case studies, variant scholarship focuses on the methodological, theoretical, and ethical dilemmas facing scholars when working with ancient texts in modern contexts. This book is intended for those interested in the historical practices of research into ancient manuscripts, ethical quandaries in studying unprovenanced textual materials, and the unintended consequences of scholarly interactions with problematic text-bearing objects.

• Justnes, Årstein & Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. (2023). “Much Clean Paper for Little Dirty Paper”: The Market for Dead Sea Scrolls in the Twenty-First Century. Journal of Ancient Judaism (JAJ). ISSN 1869-3296. 14(2), p. 222–262. doi: 10.30965/21967954-bja10043. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Since 2002, more than 100 “new” Dead Sea Scrolls fragments have surfaced on the antiquities market. They were launched with great stories and soon became big business. In this study, we analyze the market for post-2002 fragments. After a detailed chronological overview of the sales over the last 20 years, we discuss some of the most essential questions related to these sales: How did a market arise for Dead Sea Scrolls in the twenty-first century? What made some fragments especially attractive? How much money has been spent in total? Where did these new fragments come from? We argue that the post-2002 “saga” reads first and foremost as a story about Christian Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Press, Michael David & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Introduction: The Market for Jewish Antiquities. Journal of Ancient Judaism (JAJ). ISSN 1869-3296. 14(2), p. 163–165. doi: 10.30965/21967954-bja10044. Full text in Research Archive
• Rasmussen, Josephine Munch & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Tales of Saviours and Iconoclasts: On The Provenance of “The Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism”. Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia (ACTA). ISSN 0065-0900. 32(18), p. 125–146. doi: 10.5617/acta.9023. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (2021). More Dubious Dead Sea Scrolls: Four Pre-2002 Fragments in the Schøyen Collection. Dead Sea Discoveries. ISSN 0929-0761. 28(1), p. 20–37. doi: 10.1163/15685179-bja10001. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Rasmussen, Josephine Munch (2020). Hazon Gabriel: A Display of Negligence. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR). ISSN 0003-097X. 384(1), p. 69–76. doi: 10.1086/709464. Full text in Research Archive

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• Justnes, Årstein (2026). Smuglergodset som ble buddhismens dødehavsruller. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202775131. 175 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Justnes, Årstein (2026). Skjellettene i skapet. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Skriftsamleren Martin Schøyen har donert store deler av samlingen til sin gamle videregående skole. Kontroversene følger med.

• Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Justnes, Årstein (2026). Inntil Dovre faller: Apokalypse på norsk (Liv Ingeborg Lied og Årstein Justnes, Cappelen Damm, 2028): prosjektbeskrivelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2026). Situasjonen for religionsfagene. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2026). Dødehavsrullene– de eldgamle manuskriptene og de falske fragmentene. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2026). How Much Can a Researcher Actually Research? Capacity, Attention, and Limits. Full text in Research Archive
• Wehus, Walter Norman & Justnes, Årstein (2026). UiA får to nye Marie Curie-stipendiater - Universitetet i Agder. [Internet]. uia.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Michael B. Johnson og Francesco Niosi har fått postdoktorstillinger ved UiA gjennom et prestisjestipend fra EU. De skal studere henholdsvis dødehavsrullene og kunstig intelligens-løsninger for havvind.

• Justnes, Årstein (2026). DEADSEAREous – et nytt forskningsprosjekt. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2025). Introduksjon til seminaret. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2025). Introduction. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Deborah, Hilda (2025). Ad fontes! Ad fragmenta! Reinventing the Dead Sea Scrolls. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://www.inn.no/om-universitetet/fakultet-for-lererutdanning-og-pedagogikk/arrangementer-fra-lup/dhko-2025/justnes-og-deborah.pdf

• Comerford, Charles Peter; Gimse, Ingrid Breilid; Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. & Justnes, Årstein (2025). Nye perspektiver i forskningen på Dødehavsrullene. Full text in Research Archive
• Wehus, Walter Norman & Justnes, Årstein (2025). – En fantastisk mulighet både for instituttet og kandidaten [intervju om Marie Curie-ordningen]. [Internet]. Uia.no/intranett. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Monger, Matthew Phillip (2025). Introduction and welcome. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2025). Testimonial of a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow Supervisior. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2024). Hvitvasking av plyndrede manuskripter – med litt hjelp fra NESH: Schøyen-saken. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2024). Ten Years with the Lying Pen of Scribes: What Did We Learn? Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2024). A New RCN Project? Airing Airy Thoughts. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2024). The Lying Pen of Scribes Toppforsk (2019–2024): Tre historier om avvisning – og hva de kan lære oss om å lede forskning. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://mf.no/en/events/mf-casr-lunch-talk-arstein-justnes

• Justnes, Årstein (2023). The Lying Pen of Scribes (2019–2024): Results and Achievements Four Years into the Project. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Elgvin, Torleif (2023). A Sudden Clink from the Missing Link: The Yaḥad Ostracon Revisited. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). The Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism: The Collectors, the Scholars, and the Lies. Full text in Research Archive
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Monger, Matthew Phillip; Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Tapte fragmenter [podcast]. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). Stressreduksjon og mindfulness. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). Når Bibelen blir svindel og bedrag. Full text in Research Archive
• Elgvin, Torleif & Justnes, Årstein (2023). With Razor Blade, Knife or Sharp Tools:Cutting the Dead Sea Scrolls. Full text in Research Archive
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Elgvin, Torleif; Gimse, Ingrid Breilid; Justnes, Årstein & Press, Michael David (2023). Dødehavsrullene – en innføring (podcast). Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. (2023). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Full text in Research Archive
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Lande, Dana Ryan & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Hvordan lansere et falskt dødehavsrullfragment? [podcast]. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2023). From Qumran Caves to Swiss Vaults: Traveling “Dead Sea Scrolls” Fragments. Full text in Research Archive
• Stordalen, Lena Caroline; Hægeland, Signe Marie & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Jakten på de tapte Dødehavsrullene. [Journal]. Vårt Land. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Saken ble publisert digitalt 24. februar på vl.no

• Justnes, Årstein & Ekroll, Charlotte (2023). A Sudden Clink from the Missing Link: The History of the So-called Yaḥad Ostracon from Qumran. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Stresshåndtering og tilstedeværelse i arbeidslivet. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://teol.ku.dk/arrangementer/arrangementer2022/doedehavsrullerne--75-aar-efter-fundene-i-oerkenen-1947-2022/

• Justnes, Årstein & Hægeland, Signe Marie (2022). Lost and Inaccessible Dead Sea Scroll Fragments. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Dødehavsrullene. Full text in Research Archive
• Kjeldsberg, Ludvik A. & Justnes, Årstein (2022). A Database of Post-2002 Fragments: Recent Developments. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Bruk av KFU-midler i eget forskningsarbeid. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). The Lying Pen of Scribes: Fake, Lost, Rumoured, and Unprovenanced Dead Sea Scrolls and Fragments. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Hægeland, Signe Marie (2022). Missing: Have You Seen These Scrolls? Biblical Archeology Review. ISSN 0098-9444. 48(3), p. 23–24. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). Authenticity, Provenance, and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Part I). Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2022). The Market for Dead Sea Scrolls (1990–2020). Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Loge, Julia (2022). Kunstig kunnskap. [Journal]. Forskerforum. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Oppmerksomhetstrening. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Stress, balanse og medfølelse under en pandemi. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). False Prophets: How to forge a Dead Sea Scroll (by Madeleine Schwartz). [Journal]. Harper's Magazine. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Jesaja i Dødehavsrullene og Det nye testamentet. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Stomnås, Martin S. (2021). The Dead Sea Scroll Fragments in Paris. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Making the Dead Sea Scrolls Super Expensive and Brill-iant (yet) Again: A Presentation and Discussion of Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts and Dead Sea Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts (Brill). Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). The PAMfilius Database: An Updated Update. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Om nytt funn av dødehavsrullfragmenter. [Radio]. P2 Nyhetsettermiddag. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Final panel discussion: “Changing Hands, Changing Meanings”. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Ledelse av panel med Neil Brodie, Michael Press, Raha Rafii, Christopher Prescott og Rick Bonnie: “Fake, lost and manipulated objects and manuscripts: How does it involve and affect research?”. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Rushing in Where Angels and Scholars Fear to Tread: The Dead Sea Scrolls and Provenance. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Mjølsneset, Marit (2021). Professor saksøkt for salg av stjålne bibelfragment. [Journal]. Vårt Land. Full text in Research Archive
• Hægeland, Signe Marie; Stuestøl, Martin S & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Lost Dead Sea Scrolls: A Database: Launching of version 1.0. Full text in Research Archive
• Goncharenko, Igor & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Fallgruver og muligheter for åpen publisering — et forskers perspektiv [på engelsk]. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Lost Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In collaboration with Signe M Hægeland and Martin S. Stomnås

• Justnes, Årstein (2021). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Rumours of Dead Sea Scrolls in the 21th Century. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Proof that Job Doesn’t Quite Work? 11QtgJob (11Q10) and PAM 43.796–43.799. Full text in Research Archive
• Halverson, Sandra Louise & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Digital research networks and collaboration: opportunities and challenges. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Presentasjon av «Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities». Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2021). Dødehavsrullene. Full text in Research Archive
• Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Once Lost, but Now (Pro)found: On the Construction of An Early Literature and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The Tel Dan Inscription and the Yearning for King David. Full text in Research Archive
• Larsen, Arne Martin & Justnes, Årstein (2020). Forskning med store medieoppslag. [Internet]. uia.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). De falske fragmentene og forskerne som gjorde dem til dødehavsruller. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Grunnet covid-19 ble forelesningen holdt for to ganger 11:30 og 13:00.

• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The Tel Dan Inscription: A Modern Forgery? Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The PAMfilius Database. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). The PAMfilius Project. Full text in Research Archive
• Grønli, Kristin Straumsheim & Justnes, Årstein (2020). Bibelsk svindel gav smertefull sjølransaking. [Journal]. Forskningsetikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Undervisning og forskning i coronaens tid. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). More Profound than Goat Lost and Found: The Provenance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). PAM Photo Workshop. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Presentasjon av the Lying Pen of Scribes Toppforsk. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein & Greshko, Michael (2020). Exclusive: 'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries. [Internet]. National Geographic. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Introduction to the Conference. Full text in Research Archive
• David, Ariel & Justnes, Årstein (2020). After Dead Sea Forgeries Exposed, How Do We Know the Scrolls in Israel Are Authentic? [Journal]. Haaertz. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). Nabonidus, Prayer of (4Q242/4QPrNab). In Stuckenbruck, Loren & Gurtner, Daniel M. (Ed.), T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism Volumes I and II. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISSN 9780567661449. p. 388–389. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). A White Dead Sea Scroll, Boxes of Ancient Fragments,and a Nocturnal Clandestine Meeting. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein (2020). A Sudden Clink from the Missing Link: The History and Provenance of the Yahad Ostracon. Full text in Research Archive
• Justnes, Årstein; Rasmussen, Josephine Munch; Lied, Liv Ingeborg & Grønli, Kristin S. (2020). Bibelsk svindel gav smertefull sjølvransaking. [Journal]. Forskningsetikk. Full text in Research Archive
• Lie, Andreas Thorsen & Justnes, Årstein (2023). Vitenskapelig assistent i The Lying Pen of Scribes. uia.no. Full text in Research Archive
• Tagarani, Lasko Sherko & Justnes, Årstein (2022). Ishmael-papyruset: Hvor kommer det fra? Universitetet i Agder. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/ishmael-papyruset-hvor-kommer-det-fra

• Justnes, Årstein & Stomnås, Martin S. (2021). Dødehavsrullene i bilder - og i endring. uia.no. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/doedehavsrullene-i-bilder-og-i-endring

• Hægeland, Signe Marie & Justnes, Årstein (2021). Forsvunnede Dødehavsrullfragmenter. Universitetet i Agder. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Rapport fra Studenter i forskning-prosjekt https://www.uia.no/studenter-i-forskningsprosjekt/forsvunnede-doedehavsrullfragmenter

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