Dead Sea Scrolls arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dead Sea Scrolls arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina.



CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- After months of anticipation, the Dead Sea Scrolls
have finally arrived in Charlotte.

Starting Friday and ending May 29,
10 of the 2,000-year-old documents will be on display at Discovery
Place. Museum officials said it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

"Several of the scrolls in this particular collection have never before
traveled outside Israel," John Mackay, president of Discovery Place,
said at a news conference Thursday. "This particular exhibition has
never before been seen in any other city in the world."

Mackay said the museum and its partners worked hard with the Israel
Antiquities Authority, the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation and the Pacific
Science Center to get Charlotte selected as a host venue.

"It has been a rewarding, yet financially challenging exercise, and it
would not have been possible without the generous support of so many
companies, foundations and individuals throughout our region," he said.
"We called on the community, and you responded. This is truly your
exhibition."

Ten of the Dead Sea Scrolls are at Discovery Place. The Dead Sea
Scrolls are the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Old Testament.
Archeologists found more than 900 fragments in the late 1940s.

Discovery Place built a new exhibit specifically for its 10 scrolls. The
exhibit is 11,000 square feet, and it must be exactly the right climate
so the scrolls won't dry out.

The 10 fragments will be displayed in individual glass cases. Beside
each of them will be the corresponding translation of its Hebrew
passage.

More than 200,000 people are expected to come see the scrolls, and more
than 40,000 tickets have already been sold.

"There is a little bit of an awe factor, just from the historical factor
of it," said Kevin Boling, a Greenville, S.C., resident.

Charlotte is just the 16th city worldwide to display some of the
Scrolls. Officials said the region's faith made it a perfect fit.
Discovery Place built a new exhibit specifically for its 10 scrolls.
"This whole area of the country has a high proportion of people for whom
the Bible means a lot," said Weston Fields of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Foundation.

No flash cameras will be allowed into the Scrolls exhibit, which remains
dark at all hours. Only fiber-optic rays, set on timers, will light up
the display cases.

"That's so that we can conserve light exposure on the scrolls and limit
it for the year," said Joanie Philips, the museum's director of major
projects. "Once these scrolls are here, they'll go back to Israel and
not come out again."

Tickets for the exhibit are $20. For more information, visit
www.discoverscrolls.org


bbb wrote:
Does anyone believe in the info that is on the Dead Sea scrolls?


We can't get facts straight 100 to 500 years back. Now you/not me are
going to trust 2,000-year-old documents. How do you know they are/were
valid?

Not the scrolls itself,
but the information that's on it?

***More than 200,000 people are expected to come see the scrolls, and
more than 40,000 tickets have already been sold.***


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