Judges upheld 10 of Raphael Golb’s convictions in New York state court but rejected a further seven.

Golb is the son of an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Norman Gold, a professor at the University of Chicago who has argued that the texts, found near the Dead Sea, were written by various authors.

Raphael Golb was charged with making fake email accounts to impersonate academics in a campaign to discredit his father’s critics.

He said he sent the emails to protest his father’s exclusion from a number of exhibits on the scrolls.