THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION IN SEATTLE gets a thoughtful but positive review by Janet I. Tu in the Seattle Times:

Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit tells stories from then and now

By Janet I. Tu

Seattle Times staff reporter

To best appreciate the Pacific Science Center's Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, it helps to know or read about their background and religious significance beforehand.

The exhibit, which opened for a media preview Wednesday morning, is not a display of visual grandeur on the King Tut scale. Instead, the 10 scrolls on display are small and in dimly lit cases — the limited lighting necessary to preserve these ancient manuscripts.

It's the stories behind the scrolls — and the stories they tell — that are the most interesting.

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