Aramaic Enoch Scroll

Strugnell said that he was shown the microfilm in 1990, during the Kuwait crisis, but he was never able to buy it for the editorial team.

These, or some of them, were at that time (the Kuwait crisis) about to be bought by private, probably European collectors or bankers.

Although Strugnell had arrangements with serious buyers who would publicize the scrolls, he was not able to convince the owners to sell them.

[1][3] Abu Dahoud has confirmed that he and ten other men found the cave, and sold the scrolls to many different people.

Michael Wise, a DSS scholar, writes: "No trace of the Parables of Enoch has been discovered at Qumran, and it is widely considered today to be a composition of the later first century C.E.