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 ...

Shahin died in 1993 and his son William Kando now runs his business and estate. Many scholars believe that the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden in the Qumran caves around A.D. 70, during a Jewish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

He’d hit a ceramic jar containing an ancient manuscript. This was the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of about a thousand texts dating from around 250 BC to AD 68. It is the most ...