Trial Begins in Cyberbullying Case Over Dead Sea Scrolls

A trial has begun in Manhattan for the lawyer who is accused of stealing a professor’s identity online, among other cybercrimes, in a campaign to advance his father’s arguments in a scholarly debate over the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Associated Press reported. The lawyer, Raphael Golb, is the son of the religion scholar Norman Golb of the University of Chicago. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of using Internet aliases to falsely accuse Lawrence Schiffman of New York University of plagiarizing his father’s work. The alleged crimes and cyberbullying were detailed by The Chronicle last year.