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Cross knew Kondo, for the Jordanian had served as middleman between him and the Bedouin in previus scroll sales. He was not quite honest, but at least not dangerous. The route became less "circuitous," the car halted at the banker's mansion, and Cross awaited the scrolls which he had traveled over 6000 miles to authenticate...
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...
...Israel's new acquisition may have created another war casuality, for, by seizing the scroll, the Isrealis have very likely cut off the channel that has provided the scholars with scrolls for the last 15 years...