Dead sea scrolls?

[pjrb]

Is this exhibit worth the money? I heard the scrolls are at the very end but what else do they show/discuss??

Thanks.

[6enny]

I went. It gets cheaper after 5, at which point, I guess it's worth the money.

The scrolls were not impressive at all, but the story around finding them was relatively interesting. Aside from the first room and a video in the last room talking about what happened after they found them, it was all just tiny pieces of paper and little clay pots to me. There was only about 4 rooms in all.

I'm not jewish. It might carry more weight if I were.

[OldMama]

Hi, the Very Useful Classics Major and I went to see it with a deal from Living Social ($30.00) for both of us. It was okay. There was a brief live and multimedia presentation, then you were on your own for the actual exhibit. Lots of artifacts and urns. Lots to read that made folks move very slowly. The scroll themselves have degraded substantially since they were removed from the caves so there are just fragments of the actual scrolls under glass at the end. There is also an interesting (very short) film about their discovery and the intrigue that ensued.

Classics Major will pay to see any antiquity and he probably enjoyed it more than most people. I was happy to have seen it and even happier that I had the Living Social deal. I'm not sure I would have been so happy paying full price.

We also did the planetarium show since we're both big planetarium fans. All I can say is, between the new, non-reclining seat and the frigid AC, it was the first sky show I didn't fall asleep during in a long time

[pjrb]

Thanks for the info. I kinda remembered the Tut exhibit was the same way. We attended a lecture beforehand through our alumni association but the exhibit itself was too crowded to read most of the artifact descriptions, though I already had heard there was no Tut body to observe, just a replication.

[szekely]

I'm not jewish. It might carry more weight if I were.

I don't know- aren't the Dead Sea Scrolls evidence of something like Christianity before Christ? I don't think the Jews care so much about it, save in a secular/historical way.

[OldMama]

The Dead Sea scrolls are believed to be the oldest written forms of the Torah- the first 5 books of Old Testament plus some other writings. They have value to both Christians and Jews since both faiths share those books.

I saw the King Tut thing too, also with Classics Major. Now he really got into that because he's big on Egypt. But it wasn't anything like the real King Tut I saw years ago in NYC. That was unbelievable and worth every penny.

[supersupper]

The story of their discovery is rather interesting in that something that old lay undiscovered for so long and was found by mere sheep herders (oh so biblical).

"Dead Sea Scrolls" sounds so much more interesting from a marketing standpoint than if they were named after The Salt Pools, which is right next door.

They are not the earliest forms of anything- simply written records of story-telling from long ago, some fragments of which are echoes of stories eventually and selectively collected by mere mortals into so-called "holy books" from God. Or someone's god.

Ya'll still fightin over who's god it was to this day.

[2happy4u]

The story of their discovery is rather interesting in that something that old lay undiscovered for so long and was found by mere sheep herders (oh so biblical).

"Dead Sea Scrolls" sounds so much more interesting from a marketing standpoint than if they were named after The Salt Pools, which is right next door.

They are not the earliest forms of anything- simply written records of story-telling from long ago, some fragments of which are echoes of stories eventually and selectively collected by mere mortals into so-called "holy books" from God. Or someone's god.

Ya'll still fightin over who's god it was to this day.

yea, just another fairy tale... not a fact in it. Though the MC did call it a "miraculous find". who believes in miracles? I saw a bunch of these exhibits none are worth the money.

[JoeBaker]

yea, just another fairy tale... not a fact in it.

Stating there's "not a fact in it" is merely your opinion.

[BarryG]

Stating there's "not a fact in it" is merely your opinion.

It's just wrong, plenty of history in the Bible has been validated.

[gideon]

you have to take facts and fairytales as representations of real events described with knowledge of the time they lived in. it's now thought that babylon was hit by a meteor, there wasn't just one flood - there were several and underneath the dead sea there are sites showing that there were communities there.

a great many things have been described in the books and shown to be true. but, one thing which has always interested me is that there is no archaeological nor written record of the Jews exodus from Egypt. nothing - not a scrap of papyrus nor carving - no record of any kind.

[2happy4u]

Stating there's "not a fact in it" is merely your opinion.

not...just being sarcastic. IMO it's all fact

[darthsinatra]

not...just being sarcastic. IMO it's all fact

Having an opinion and believing it is fact does not make it fact. That is called faith. And you are entitled to your faith and I respect that entitlement but FAITH is not fact.

[2happy4u]

Having an opinion and believing it is fact does not make it fact. That is called faith. And you are entitled to your faith and I respect that entitlement but FAITH is not fact.

you call it fiction. are you one without faith? is that the difference?

[darthsinatra]

you call it fiction. are you one without faith? is that the difference?

Everybody has faith, just not in the same things/context. The question of faith is bigger than religion.

The difference is the bright line between fact and fiction.

[2happy4u]

you say it's fiction. only because ur unwilling to open your mind, it goes far beyond your own intellect. Thats the stumbling point for most humans.

[darthsinatra]

you say it's fiction. only because ur unwilling to open your mind, it goes far beyond your own intellect. Thats the stumbling point for most humans.

Many things go beyond my intellect. Superstition is not one of them.

[2happy4u]

walked under any ladders lately?

[darthsinatra]

walked under any ladders lately?

That's some weak sauce there, reverend.

[2happy4u]

sorry I don't deal in Superstition. I believed we all came from a monkey , thats when I stopped the superstition