THE TEMPLE SCROLL is a show stealer at The New Hebrew exhibition in Berlin. And well it should be.

Hebrew on display in Berlin
By Dana Gilerman (Ha'arets)

The Temple Scroll from Qumran arrived at the Martin Gropius-Bau Museum in the center of Berlin on Monday morning. The scroll - one of the principal exhibits at "The New Hebrews: a Century of Art in Israel," which opens tomorrow - has come a long way, all the way from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to the history museum in Berlin.

Michal Dayagi-Mendels, chief curator of archaeology at the Israel Museum, says the scroll has been undergoing preparations for the journey for the entire past year. "Four restorers worked on it every day, for hours and hours," she says.

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"One could think of [the scroll] as our Mona Lisa," says Dayagi. "It goes on tour and is accorded proper respect. There is something very unique in the fact that Hebrew, the Jewish language, is on display after 2,000 years, especially in Berlin, at an exhibition of a century of Hebrew culture. There is something very powerful in this, attesting to a continuity that no one has succeeded in breaking," she says.

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There's another article about the Temple Scroll in Berlin here. And this article on the exhibition has a paragraph on the Temple Scroll which includes a link to the Qumranica blog.