Exod 12:3–5
“Discovered in Cave Four at Qumran and dates circa 100 BC to AD 68. It came directly from Khalil Iskander Shahin.”
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.
“Discovered in Cave Four at Qumran and dates circa 100 BC to AD 68. It came directly from Khalil Iskander Shahin.”
1. Community of the Essenes, Qumran (ca. 30 BC/20 AD–68 AD); 2. Qumran Cave 4 (68–1952); 3. Khalil Iskander Shahin (“Kando”), Bethlehem (1952–65), Lebanon (1965–69), Zürich (1969-93); 4. Private collection, Switzerland (1993–2001) [Schøyen not dated]
“Found at Qumran … in Cave 4, some time between 1952 and 1956. The fragment itself dates between 150 BC – AD 68” (cited in Davila 2009).
“… Zurich, Switzerland, where the scroll fragments had been kept for decades in a vault at the UBS Bank. ‘Old Man Kando,’ … being a shrewd businessman, had known that