Glimpse of holy scrolls at Sacramento area churchThe article also has a photo of the fragment of Deuteronomy 27:4b-6, on which, more here and follow the links. Background to the exhibition is here.
Parts of Dead Sea discovery on loan in Granite Bay
By Sue Nowicki (Modesto Bee)
snowicki@modbee.com
GRANITE BAY -- Want to see a piece of 2,000-year-old history as well as centuries of historic Jewish and Christian writings?
Check out "From the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America" at Bayside Church in this Sacramento-area community. Eleven fragments of the famous scrolls -- about the size of a thumbnail -- are on display for the first time in Northern California. The show runs daily through May 15.
On loan from Azusa Pacific University, only three of the exhibit's fragments have been deciphered. They are from Deuteronomy and Daniel and include this verse:
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Deuteronomy 8:3 "So he humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord."
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More on the Granite Bay, Ca, DSS exhibition
MORE ON THE GRANITE BAY, CA, DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBIT: