Join TSS for a tour (audio) of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Franklin Institute for Sunday,Sept. 23 at 1pm. Our tickets to the show also give us entrance to the rest of the museum so it will be great for kids.
About the Exhibit:
View the largest and most comprehensive display of the priceless biblical Dead Sea Scrolls during a new exhibition at the Franklin Institute.
The world debut exhibition, Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times , features one of the largest collections of the 2000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls ever displayed in North America as well as a three-ton stone from the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
Visitors to the Franklin Institute will have the opportunity to view 20 scrolls, including four scrolls making their world debut, containing the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible. Pieces include text from the biblical books of Genesis, Psalms, Exodus, Isaiah and others.
The exhibition features more than 500 items from the biblical era on display alongside the famed scrolls, including many newly discovered Holy Land artifacts.
Objects include remains of religious articles, weapons of war, stone carvings, textiles and beautiful mosaics along with everyday household items such as jewelry and ceramics.
Visitors can also experience a compelling scale recreation of a section of Jerusalem’s Western (or Wailing) Wall complete with an authentic three-ton stone from the Wall in Israel. Prayer slips left on the wall during the exhibition will be taken to Jerusalem and placed on the Western Wall itself.
This exhibition is created by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) from the collections of the Israel National Treasures and produced by Discovery Times Square and The Franklin Institute.
Artifact on display at the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibition.
“In the beginning…”
Hailed as the mostimportant archaeological find of the 20th century, the story behind the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is almost as interesting as the scrolls themselves.
The first cache of scrolls was discovered in 1947 when a Bedouin shepherd casually tossed a rock into a cave and heard a pot shatter. Over the next eight years, archaeologists excavated a series of caves and found thousands of parchment fragments that included the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible.
While the scribes of the scrolls are unknown, the ancient text shed light on the language used in the Bible, much of which remains unchanged to this day.
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