The Roman Catholic hierarchy and the Jesuits sat on them for decades. The scrolls didn't follow the desired line.
And your source for this particular piece of innuendo is what? The plot-line for the B-movie Stigmata? Or the "true story" that inspired said movie?
If you knew the first thing about the DSS, you would know that the Hebrew University of Jerusalem had complete photographic reproductions of the entire corpus of documents.
What happened is that lots of outsiders with ideological axes to grind (Catholic-bashers, antiSemites, atheists) accused the team of scholars involved of foot-dragging, infighting and conspiracy. The scholars came from both Catholic, Jewish and Reformation backgrounds. They were all consummate professionals.
Why did it take so long? The scrolls were not like printed books, with vowels and publication dates and cataloguing information and page numbers and regular spelling/grammar. They were a random collection of scrolls and scraps. They were jumbled together in no particular order. They were scattered over a number of archeological sites. They were written in various scripts. They were written over a period of hundreds of years by many different hands. They were not punctuated nor were they spelled or constructed uniformly. They were written in different dialects. Some texts were written in several different dialects using different alphabets.
These were, far and away, the most complex set of documents ever discovered in the history of archaeology. It took more than a century to begin to decipher Tokharian. It took five centuries to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics. That it only took 54 years to decipher, edit, redact and publish the DSS is remarkable, and a testament to the skill and hard work of the scholars involved. Jedi, you couldn't dream of attaining the scholarship needed to assess these documents - those of us with training in ancient Semitics know just how ignorant your comments sound.