Perfect time to sell In 1993, just as scholars finally began publishing research of Israeli-held scrolls, and the world was abuzz with Dead Sea Scroll fever, Kando died, bequeathing his secret ...

Years later, Kando directly sold to Sharpe the larger ... Sharpe’s former business partner, say that Dead Sea Scrolls scholar James Charlesworth, who retired from the Princeton Theological ...

William Kando, who maintains his family's Dead Sea Scrolls collection, says his family offered its remaining fragments to the antiquities authority and other Israeli institutions, but they could ...

All but one, he said, can be traced back to the Kando family, Palestinian antiquities dealers who became trusted middlemen between the Bedouins who found the Dead Sea Scrolls and the scholars who ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Yigael Yadin knew for 7 years of the existence of a certain scroll in the possession of the Syrian Kando, to whom the Bedouins, in 1947 ...

Many of the fragments sold on the private market come from William Kando, a Palestinian Christian whose family has held onto a collection of pieces from the Dead Sea Scrolls for decades.

An arrangement was worked out between the authorities and a Bethlehem antiquities dealer nicknamed Kando, who had become ... a direct line between the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and Christianity ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls are returning to American shores for the first time in nearly a decade. “Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition,” featuring scroll fragments from ancient Israel, including ...

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found nearby. The archaeology of this settlement sheds light on the Jewish community that lived here and how they were connected to the Dead Sea Scrolls. ReligionForBreakfast ...

“The impossibility of it; people saying, ‘You can’t get a Dead Sea Scrolls fragment. That’s impossible.’ “ Kando would not say how many more fragments are in his family’s collectio ...

An arrangement was worked out between the authorities and a Bethlehem antiquities dealer nicknamed Kando, who had become ... a direct line between the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran and Christianity ...

The Metropolitan Samuel has sometimes been charged with slyness in his handling of the Dead Sea scrolls, but if occasionally he has exercised guile, I believe that it has been only such wariness ...