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Article: timeless & sacred Dead Sea Scrolls at last coming to Milwaukee museum
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2009
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By JACKIE LOOHAUIS-BENNETT
After years of international negotiations, the Milwaukee Public
Museum has announced that its exhibit of the legendary Dead Sea
Scrolls will open on Jan. 22.
"Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible: Ancient Artifacts, Timeless
Treasures" is the largest temporary exhibit ever produced by the
museum, with more than 200 artifacts.
The show pulls together authentic Dead Sea Scroll fragments,
illustrated manuscripts and archaeological findings from Israel,
Jordan, France, England, Switzerland and the United States. The
scroll segments and other texts in the Milwaukee exhibit have shed
new light on the history of two religions: Judaism and Christianity.
"These are the greatest ...