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Saturday, February 10, 2007

ADOLFO ROITMAN is lecturing in Florida:
Dead Sea Scrolls curator to speak of historic find

By MICHELLE JONES, [St. Petersburg] Times Staff Writer
Published February 10, 2007

TARPON SPRINGS

I* 1947 one of the most significant discoveries of the 20th century was made by three Bedouin boys playing in the caves above the Dead Sea in Israel. During their explorations they discovered a treasure, scrolls, dating from before A.D. 100.

Adolfo Roitman, curator of the Dead Sea Scrolls and director of Jerusalem's Israel Museum Shrine of the Book, will lecture locally on the religious significance of these scrolls to both Judaism and Christianity.

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