Friday, February 17, 2006

TEN DEAD SEA SCROLLS have arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Dead Sea Scrolls arrive in Charlotte
Updated: 2/16/2006 8:21 PM
By: Adam Shub, News 14 Carolina

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After months of anticipation, the Dead Sea Scrolls have finally arrived in Charlotte.

Starting Friday and ending May 29, 10 of the 2,000-year-old documents will be on display at Discovery Place. Museum officials said it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

"Several of the scrolls in this particular collection have never before traveled outside Israel," John Mackay, president of Discovery Place, said at a news conference Thursday. "This particular exhibition has never before been seen in any other city in the world."

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The scrolls have been getting good local coverage and I'm sure the exhibition will be a success.

One correction:
The Dead Sea Scrolls are the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Old Testament. Archeologists found more than 900 fragments in the late 1940s.

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The 10 fragments will be displayed in individual glass cases. Beside each of them will be the corresponding translation of its Hebrew passage.
That's 900 manuscripts (in tens of thousands of fragments!) and 10 manuscripts.

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