Millar Burrows
Director of the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR). He joined the first study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Texts and Manuscripts of the Old Testament by Mark R. Norton, Page 161-162)
Dead Sea Scrolls
John C. Trever, acting director of ASOR, and his fellow William H. Brownlee were studying the Dead Sea Scrolls after Butrus Sowmy, librarian and monk of Saint Mark's Syrian Orthodox Monastery in the Armenian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, brought their attention to them. Sowmy had told them that the scrolls had been in the monastery for 40 years and were being catalogued with other rare books.
When the ASOR director Millar Burrows returned from Baghdad a few days later, he joined the study. At this point, the Syrians revealed the scrolls had been purchased in 1947, the year before, and had not been in the monastery for 40 years.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Texts and Manuscripts of the Old Testament by Mark R. Norton, Page 161-162)