<P> Arrangements with the Bedouin left the scrolls in the hands of a third party until a profitable sale of them could be negotiated . That third party, George Isha'ya, was a member of the Syrian Orthodox Church, who soon contacted St Mark's Monastery in the hope of getting an appraisal of the nature of the texts . News of the find then reached Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, better known as Mar Samuel . After examining the scrolls and suspecting their antiquity, Mar Samuel expressed an interest in purchasing them . Four scrolls found their way into his hands: the now famous Isaiah Scroll (1QIsa), the Community Rule, the Habakkuk Pesher (a commentary on the book of Habakkuk), and the Genesis Apocryphon . More scrolls soon surfaced in the antiquities market, and Professor Eleazer Sukenik and Professor Benjamin Mazar, Israeli archaeologists at Hebrew University, soon found themselves in possession of three, The War Scroll, Thanksgiving Hymns, and another, more fragmented, Isaiah scroll (1QIsa). </P> <P> Four of the Dead Sea Scrolls eventually went up for sale in an advertisement in the 1 June 1954, Wall Street Journal . On 1 July 1954, the scrolls, after delicate negotiations and accompanied by three people including the Metropolitan, arrived at the Waldorf - Astoria Hotel in New York . They were purchased by Professor Mazar and the son of Professor Sukenik, Yigael Yadin, for $250,000, approximately 2.14 million in 2012 - equivalent dollars, and brought to Jerusalem . Recently, forgeries of alleged Dead Sea Scrolls have appeared on black markets . </P> <P> Almost all of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection is currently under the ownership of the Government of the state of Israel, and housed in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum . This ownership is contested by both Jordan and by the Palestinian Authority . </P> <P> A list of known ownership of Dead Sea Scroll fragments: </P>

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