…new revelations about the forgeries have significance beyond the museum itself, raising questions about the authenticity of the entirety of the post-2002 scrolls.
"In 2002...the
Kando family was rumored to be selling relics that had long been hidden away
in a vault in Switzerland."
Oh brother! The same source of SWBTS's purported 'Dead Seas Scrolls fragments' !
Dorothy (Mrs. Paige) Patterson was 'chief negotiator' in SWBTS acquisition of Dead Sea Scrolls fragments
"A visit from a SWBTS donor study group to Israel in July of 2009 prompted
Kando to approach Dorothy about purchasing fragments of the Scrolls....Dorothy became a fierce negotiator and over a period of several years the negotiations moved from Israel to Zurich,
Switzerland, where the fragments were contained
in a vault.
"
with the generous financial gifts of SWBTS donors, Dorothy returned to Southwestern with three fragments....On Sept. 3, 2010 Dorothy was able to secure two more fragments....At that time
Kando gave Dorothy as a gift a fragment....Three months later Dorothy Patterson and her friend,
Candi Finch, returned from Zurich to Texas with their greatest acquisition, both in size and value – the Paleo-Leviticus fragment....Today Southwestern Seminary houses the largest collection of Dead Sea Scroll fragments owned by any institution of higher education in the United States."
The Pattersons' son Armour even wrote a book about their supposed coup. How embarrassing! :
