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Longest of Dead Sea Scrolls to Visit U.S.
Nov 19 12:02 PM US/Eastern
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CLEVELAND

The longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls is scheduled to go on display in a Cleveland museum next year in its first appearance in the United States.

A traveling exhibition featuring the Temple Scroll, which measures 28 feet, will make its first stop at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in suburban Beachwood, The Plain Dealer newspaper reported Saturday. The ancient manuscript dates back to the time of Christ.

The exhibition, which runs from March through August, also includes other artifacts from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, including the burial box of Caiaphas the High Priest who, according to the New Testament, delivered Christ to the Romans for execution.

Officials at the Maltz Museum said the exhibition will later travel to two other North American museums, which have not been announced.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in a desert cave in 1947. From scrolls were found in 11 caves dotting the hills above the Qumran area of the West Bank _ 800 documents in all, written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.

The scrolls contain Old Testament texts, psalms, commentaries and other works, some of them written in code. Many scholars believe that the scrolls were written at Qumran by Essenes, a breakaway Jewish sect.

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ABOUT THIS EXHIBIT

The goals of the "Scrolls from the Dead Sea" exhibition are three fold: to enable visitors to see twelve of the Dead Sea Scroll fragments; to promote greater understanding of the turbulent period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were copied; and to provide some insight into the questions raised and the "mystery" surrounding this great manuscript find.

The exhibit has an introductory as well as three main sections:

The introductory area presents the Psalms Scroll, the largest of the scroll fragments in the exhibition, and touches on the geographical and religious contexts of the period.

"The Qumran Community" examines the region in which the scrolls were found, presents the archaeological materials uncovered at the Qumran site, and explores the nature of the habitation adjacent to the scroll-bearing caves.

The "Qumran Library" is a look at the various scrolls that were discovered in the Dead Sea caves.

"Two Thousand Years Later" explores the significance of the scrolls to modern scholarship and presents some of the questions and controversies that surround them.

The storyline for the exhibition includes not only interpretation of the scrolls, their meaning and significance, it also deals, to the extent it has been explored by scholars, with the history and social realities of the people and the times that produced the scrolls. Recent publications on the exhibited scrolls are included throughout the exhibition. Finally, the exhibition presents differing views where they occur. For example, the Qumran excavation is viewed by many as the site of a communal religious sect, probably the Essenes. The exhibition explores this interpretation but also presents entirely different points of view.

In the exhibition, B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) are alternate designations for B.C. and A.D. The exhibition contains other words, terms, and references that may need definition or explanation. Such terms are explained the first time they occur in the exhibition. This online exhibit includes a full glossary of such terms as well as the exhibit brochure.