Ludvik A. Kjeldsberg, Årstein Justnes and Martin Stomnås
Since 2002, more than 100 “new” Dead Sea Scrolls-like fragments have appeared on the antiquities market. The researchers in the Lying Pen of Scribes have made great efforts in cataloguing these fragments.
“As of 2013, I am aware of one more Psalm scroll (containing Ps. 119:40–41) that has been offered for sale” [Flint 2014:239].
“These fragments [Gen 13:1–3; Words from Genesis 22; Isa 24:16–17; Isa 26:19–27:1; 1 En. 8:4–9:1] that came to Europe in the beginning of the sixties were in Lebanon with Mr.
“These fragments [Gen 13:1–3; Words from Genesis 22; Isa 24:16–17; Isa 26:19–27:1; 1 En. 8:4–9:1] that came to Europe in the beginning of the sixties were in Lebanon with Mr.
“The Bedouin who made the initial discovery of the scrolls showed them to a man named Khalil lskander Shahin (Kando) … [who] partnered with the Bedouin to find a buyer
“The remaining fragments [Gen 36:7–16; Gen 37:8; Num 16:2–5; Deut 32:5–9; 1 Sam 5:10–11; 1 Kgs 16:23–26; Jer 3:15–19] published in this volume came from a distinguished family collection, which