The Washington exhibition will present the scrolls in three rotations to protect the fragile materials. The first, from November 2025 through February 2026, will feature portions of Genesis, Job, Psalms and the War Scroll, among others. Later rotations will highlight texts such as the Great Psalms Scroll, Numbers, Lamentations, Isaiah, Jubilees and the Damascus Document.The Magdala Stone and the Sea of Galilee Boat are currently on display at the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition at the Ronald Presidential Reagan Library. I don't know if there will be any overlap of scrolls in the MOTB exhibition. The IAA tends not to keep them out very long.Alongside the scrolls, the exhibition will display archaeological finds from across Israel. These include the Magdala Stone, unearthed in 2009 at a first-century synagogue near the Sea of Galilee, and wood fragments of a fishing boat excavated from the lake during a drought in 1986. Scholars believe the vessel resembles boats used in the time of Jesus, providing tangible insight into the world described in the New Testament.
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