Anybody seen the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit sponsored by the Israel Antiquities Authority that is currently traveling the museum circuit?I saw it. It was arranged for a limited number of museums, and one of those cancelled (supposedly due to terrorist threats; I won't record here what I really think happened) so the local museum (Grand Rapids Michigan) picked it up. The exhibition would be worth seeing if one is also going to see the rest of a major museum. IOW, it was kind of a dud. There were a dozen or so scroll fragments (literally fragments; it's fortunate that any of them survived) with a description of each one. That could easy be seen in 30 minutes, if that much time would be needed.
From what I have read, deciphering these scrolls was quite a cryptological effort.
For a layman like you or me, most of what has been uncovered, aside fro the actual site itself, would not mean much without extensive narrative and explanation.
I went also. Tiny, tiny fragments..most were totally black. ho hum. In Dallas they had a Bible display of old Bibles to the present. THAT was much more interesting, IMO.