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High-Class Haggling. But Dr. Cross had bigger game in mind. Earlier in the year, while dickering for fragments on behalf of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary with the Syrian cobbler Kando, who is unofficial middleman between the Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando...
Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from
With their finds carefully wrapped up or tucked away in cardboard cigarette boxes, the Bedouins go to Bethlehem. About 100 yards from the Church of the Nativity, where Jesus is supposed to have been born, they disappear into a cobbler's shop. There in his single tiny room, surrounded by wooden lasts and shoemaker's tools (including a Singer sewing machine), sits Khalil Iskander Shahin, a seam-faced...
...government wants to abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going on, scholars of the Scrollery suffer from a recurrent nightmare: that the Bedouins may stop bringing their finds to the cobbler shop of Khalil Iskander, and take them to a black market instead (no more than three or four small fragments have so far turned up for private sale by antique dealers around the world...
Into the Valley. He moved into the priest's quarters-a tiny room and kitchen rented from the Communists-and went around to the cobbler to get his dilapidated shoes repaired. "He has holes in his shoes like us,'' some people said approvingly. At night, on his battered portable, he wrote letters for the illiterate, appeals to provincial authorities, pension applications for old soldiers. More and more people began to bring Don Domenico their problems. Some of them even began showing up for Mass...