Thursday, June 28, 2007

THE SAN DIEGO DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT OPENS TOMORROW. Here is yet another advance review:
Dead Sea Scrolls: Long-awaited exhibit offers sights, sounds, smells and samples

By: KIRBY FAIRFAX For the North County Times

By far the most convenient way to see Israel this year is to visit the San Diego Natural History Museum in our very own Balboa Park, where a once-in-a-lifetime experience awaits. For, in addition to an unprecedented exhibition of the actual Dead Sea Scrolls, the museum's staff has created a powerful, multisensory tour of the land where these historical treasures were discovered, thereby helping viewers to put them into context.

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And here's some information I don't think I've highlighed yet:
Also on display are 11 pages from several 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bibles on loan from the Russian government as well as 17th and 18th century Ethiopic copies of the Bible and three pages from a six-year contemporary project, the Saint John's Bible, which seeks to replicate the medieval tradition of illuminating manuscripts, among many other such treasures.