Wednesday, July 13, 2011

KJB@400: Dead Sea Scroll at Oklahoma City exhibit

KJB@400 WATCH: More on the exhibition at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art:
OKC Museum of Art: "Passages" exhibit

Brianna Joyce, Oklahoma City Travel Examiner
July 12, 2011

This season's special exhibit at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is truly incredible. Art aficionados, bibliophiles, young and old, and members of all faiths will enjoy the Passages exhibit celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible. Passages explores the Bible's history from its origins in Jewish scripture to its important English translation under King James.

For those interested in exploring the story behind each artifact, the exhibit provides headphones that give detailed explanations for many scrolls and books. The tour begins with a stunning collection of containers that held scrolls of the Torah. There is also a stone menorah that stood in the Temple of Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The beautiful lines of Hebrew are preserved on parchment, and a glass case contains a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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No word on which Dead Sea Scroll is exhibited, and the exhibition website is no more forthcoming.

Background here.

UPDATE (19 July): The fragment is of Genesis 32:3-7. More here.