[citation needed] He attended the University of Toronto and began his religious studies with a Bible class taught by Theophile Meek.

[citation needed] Because of World War II, Albright was unable to secure the necessary funds for Orlinsky to become a permanent member of the faculty at Hopkins.

[citation needed] Orlinsky married Donya Fein in 1934 and they had two sons, Walter (Velvel) and Seymour (Zeke).

[2] Orlinsky died on Saturday 21 March 1992 at North Oaks Retirement Community in Owings Mills, Maryland.

He helped to keep the committee on track in using the older Massoretic text rather than the easier-to-translate Septuagint, which is a Greek translation.

The Metropolitan of the Syrian Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem ran a small ad in The Wall Street Journal, which was then brought to the attention of the Israeli Consulate in New York[citation needed].

The scrolls themselves had been at the center of a negotiation between the Metropolitan and Professor Eleazar Lippe Sukenik, the founder of the Hebrew University Department of Archaeology, which had been founded following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

[citation needed] On July 1, 1954 at noon, Orlinsky received a phone call from Yadin and was summoned Israeli Consulate.

They then revealed that the reason for the strange summons was that the Dead Sea Scrolls were currently sitting in the vaults of the Trust Company of New Jersey.

[citation needed] Orlinsky was instructed to take a taxi to the Lexington Avenue entrance of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel and make sure that he was not being followed.