Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

===Search for the Qumran caves (1948–1949)===
Early in September 1948, Metropolitan bishop [[Mar Samuel]] brought some additional scroll fragments that he had acquired to professor [[Ovid R. Sellers]], the succeeding director of ASOR. By the end of 1948, nearly two years after the discovery of the scrolls, scholars had yet to locate the original cave where the fragments had been found. With unrest in the country at that time, no large-scale search could be safely undertaken. Sellers tried to persuade the [[Syrian people|Syrians]] to assist in the search for the cave, but he was unable to pay their price. In early 1949, the government of Jordan granted permission to the [[Arab Legion]] to search the area in which the original Qumran cave was believed to exist. Consequently, Cave 1 was rediscovered on 28 January 1949 by Belgian [[United Nations]] [[United Nations Truce Supervision Organization|observer]] captain Phillipe Lippens and Arab Legion captain Akkash el-Zebn.<ref name="biblicaltheology.com"/>