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.
“Qumran Cave IV” [Charlesworth 2008]
“Provenance: 1. Community of the Essenes, Qumran (circa 30 BC-68 AD); 2. Qumran Cave 4 (A.D. 68-1952); 3. Bedouin discoverers to Khalil Iskander Shahin in Bethlehem.
“… 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