A second category involves the distortion of newly discovered evidence. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were unearthed shortly after World War II, all kinds of sensationalist claims were made for how they would radically rewrite the history of Christian origins. That never happened, but another flurry of fanciful exaggerations emerged in the early 1990s when the last round of very fragmentary documents from Qumran, the site of the Dead Sea sect, was finally published and translated. One of the most famous