Dead Sea Scroll Put on Rare Display in Israel


	Dead Sea Scroll Put on Rare Display in Israel

arifsali

5-13-2008 11:36 PM

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dead sea scrolls, jerusalem, religion

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5-17-2008 12:10 PM

ericskiff

The dead sea scrolls are one of those unbelievable finds that giveus a window I the past. It must be incredible to see the real thing.

5-17-2008 12:25 PM

hitchhiker08

Brilliant clip!

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One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in <A href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime/jerusalem.html">Jerusalem</A> this week—more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. 
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The 24-foot (7.3-meter) scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment.
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The museum decided to put the scroll back on show for three months as part of <A href="http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_israel.html">Israel</A>'s 60th anniversary celebrations.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080513-AP-israel-anci.html">
The priceless manuscript, written by a Judean scribe around 120 B.C., was in a long glass case Tuesday, its neat rows of Hebrew letters distinct and legible.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080513-AP-israel-anci.html">
The Isaiah manuscript was the only complete biblical book discovered among the Dead Sea scrolls, one of the great archaeological finds of the 20th century.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080513-AP-israel-anci.html"><P>
(See a <A href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/timeline.html?eventId=23">time line of early Christianity</A>.)
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