Israel Antiquities Authority conservator Tatiana Treiger holding a fragment of Scroll 4Q274. Photo: Yoli Shwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority
Posted on 04/21/2018 8:42:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
If you ever have wanted to see the Dead Sea Scrolls but have not been able to travel to the Middle East, this may be your chance. Select Dead Sea Scrolls are on display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, Colorado, from March 16 to September 3, 2018.
Perhaps the most significant archaeological discovery of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls represent the earliest extant copies of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). In addition to Biblical texts, the scrolls contain numerous texts, such as the War Scroll (Scroll 1QM), penned by a sectarian community.
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Israel Antiquities Authority conservator Tatiana Treiger holding a fragment of Scroll 4Q274. Photo: Yoli Shwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority
I saw the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at The San Diego Natural History Museum back in December of 2007. I was out there with a friend from Arizona. We were booked for a cruise, and decided to arrive a couple of days early, and take in some of the sites as neither of us had ever been there. We hadn’t known about the exhibit, but came upon it as we were walking around Balboa Park. We were glad we were in the right place at the right time, because the exhibit ended that month.
Send more Chuck Berry.
That same tour also went through Chicago, and was a big draw. It went somewhere else, then the subsequent museum dropped out, so the Grand Rapids museum bid on it, won, and I got to see it more or less locally. Enjoyed it immensely. I think the museum lost money on it, which had been the problem for the museum that had dropped out and others which hadn't.
This will make a good weekly digest list ping as well .
Bills from their state legislature?
Since the fragments deal with morality, I’m surprised the local progs aren’t picketing this open display of hate speech.
Huh huh.huh huh huh.. She said "4Q"..
Couldn't resist. d;^)
BFL
There are thousands of scroll fragments - most are kept at the Department of antiqiuities, the Rockefeller Museum, and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Many were found up and down the Dead Sea Western Shoreline - Qumran, but many more near Ein Gedi and southward. One metal scroll Q3-15 cave 3 at Qumran) is located in Ammon. Many scrolls have yet to be studied and logged, but many are ‘in progress.) Contrary to most people’s understanding, most of the scrolls are civil documents (marraiges, deaths, titles, etc.) Biblical scrolls are amazingly similar to current documents, but are written in ancient Hebrew, so there are some differences. The community at Qumran was not the ‘monastic’ Essenes as were proposed by Father Roland Guérin de Vaux OP, a French Priest who was the first to study them (his Dominican background influenced his conclusions). There were graves found with the bones of women and children at the Qumran site, next to the scriptorium where the scrolls were transcribed. The ‘Essenes’ were a messianic cult that were a subset from the ancient Saducees. Their most notable treatise was “The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness” that was originally published by Eleazar Sukenik in 1955. I have personally seen privately held scrolls from the Grandson of the original bedouin discoverer. The point of sharing this knowledge of the scrolls is to let people know that there are thousands of them and they were written by Jews from abot 120 BCE to about 60 CE in Israel. That was while they were under Roman Administration, but I believe about 2000 years before the Palestinian Authority was ‘created’. This part of Israel was not refered to as ‘palestina’ until the Emperor Hadrian named it Syria Palestina in 135 CE after he crushed the Bar Kokhba Rebellion and wanted to ‘disappear’ Israel from the history books.
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Wow, thanks! I'd not bought into the Essene origin, and the "monastery" where the "scriptorium" was just the dining room of a large working manor farm with an inn and possibly, uh, other enterprises known to be of interest to the weary traveling man.
Meeting with academics and spiritual leaders, [thankfully no Muslims that I recalled], Bonneville deconstructs the week leading up to Jesus's execution, a time when a perfect storm of political intrigue, power struggles and clashing religious passions combined."
It was very well done, visited many of the sites connected with Jesus that are still around, and I learned plenty of things that I hadn't previously known.
“The Dead Sea Scrolls in Denver”
Hopefully, no one wil mistake them for rolling papers.
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I had the pleasure of seeing the Scrolls at the Israel Museum when I visited four years ago. A very impressive sight. Fantastic museum, BTW.
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