THE SEATTLE DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT is reviewed at MSNBC's Cosmic Log:

Scrolls of mystery
Posted: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 6:38 PM by Alan Boyle
Categories: Religion, Science

The controversies surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls are still lively, 2,000 years after they were written, and more than half a century after they were found hidden within the caves of the Judean desert. To get a sense of the mysteries surrounding those ancient fragments, there's nothing like seeing them up close - and that's exactly what I did last week at Seattle's Pacific Science Center during the run-up to its big-ticket exhibit, "Deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls."


Israel Antiquities Authority via Pacific Science Center
This fragment from a calendrical document measures
about 2.5 inches by 4 inches (6 by 10.6 centimeters).

From a couple of feet away, many of the pieces look rather mundane: tattered bits from a shopping list that's gone through the laundry, perhaps, or yellowed wallpaper that's been scraped off a wall, or even ragged pieces from a jigsaw puzzle.

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It's a good, thoughtful review that includes ancillary information, for example, on Peleg and Magen's alternative interpretation of the site of Qumran.