Footnote 1 – The Temple Scroll—The Longest and Most Recently Discovered Dead Sea Scroll

I am still keeping his confidence, however, by not revealing his name. I want all these people—whether they are robbers or not (and it is a cloak-and-dagger business) to know that as far as I am concerned, if they tell me not to reveal their identities, I won’t. Otherwise, we have no chance of getting more scrolls. And I believe there still might be another scroll or some fragments here or there. For the same reason, I don’t call the dealer by name, even though many know who he is.