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DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE COMING TO SALT LAKE CITY:

Dead Sea Scrolls coming to Leonardo in Salt Lake City

By Sean P. Means

| The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Apr 17 2013 10:55 am • Updated 5 hours ago

A display featuring some of the Dead Sea Scrolls — the parchments that include the earliest known manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible — is coming to Salt Lake City.

Twenty scrolls, some of which date back to near the time of Christ, will be part of an exhibit that will open in mid-November at The Leonardo, downtown Salt Lake City’s art-and-technology museum, officials announced Wednesday.

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Salt Lake City is one of only 10 cities to host the "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times." The exhibit has been shown in New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and will open May 19 at Boston’s Museum of Science.

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