Before us, across the flat-calm Dead Sea, the sun rises over the mountains of Jordan. The heat on this spring morning is already intense. There are no trees or grass, just a few crumbling stone walls.

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 ...