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Young 2-10, 0-0 4; Moorcroft 2-6, 1-3 5; Lagos 1-11, 1-1 3; Wurtz 5-15, 3-7 13; Stratton 2-9, 0-0 4; Holmes 0-1, 1-3 1; Welch 1-3, 0-0 2; Kondo 1-1, 0-0 2; Rubin...
...First Kondo brought out a delicate, yellowed letter written by Bar Koohba, the self-acclaimed messiah of the pre-Christian ews. They had sent Cross a picture of it when they asked him to come, and he knew it was authentic. They had promised him scrolls--supposedly 20 of them--found in Jordan and the Qumran caves on the west bank of the Dead Sea. He was hoping that one of the 20 would be the Temple Scroll, a Dead Sea scroll from the first century B.C. that was reputedly 28 feet long with the center section sompletely intact...
...Kondo had no scrolls and would not get them until he received the money. The bargaining began: Cross would not procure his U.S. donor's money until he had established that the scrolls were not fake. Kondo said his party would never give up the scrolls until they had the money. The two compromised. If Kondo would send Cross pictures of the writing on each scroll and a photo of a complete scroll, Cross would tell if they were authentic and would pay without actually seeing them...
...transaction was interrupted by the Arab-Israeli war. Israel seized Qumran as well as the section of Jordan in which Kondo lived and arrested him. Upon his release, he presented the victors with the Temple scroll...
...after the Israeli seizure of the scroll, the Bedouins -- who received no payment for the Temple scroll -- no longer trust Kondo or the scholars. It is believed they still possess some 20 scrolls from the 1956 Cave 11 excavation, said Cross. These, and any more they find, will probably be sold on the open market, where they may earn 10 times more money than they would have through the old channel system, where the Jordanian government set a reasonable price and imprisoned those caught selling to anyone who would remove the scrolls from the country...