A DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION is coming to my home town:

Museum announces first-ever local visit
By Sandi Dolbee
UNION-TRIBUNE RELIGION & ETHICS EDITOR

May 19, 2005

Tickets aren't on sale yet, and the event is more than two years away, but the San Diego Natural History Museum made it official Tuesday evening: Part of the Dead Sea Scrolls will go on exhibit here beginning in the summer of 2007.

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UPDATE: Hmmm ... the exhibit runs from July through December of 2007 and the annual SBL meeting is in San Diego in late November of the same year. Looks like there's a good chance I'll get to see it.