Friday, August 20, 2004

THERE'S A DEAD SEA SCROLLS EXHIBITION IN BRAZIL reported by, and I'm not making this up, Gringoes.com. Here's their announcement with some comments from me in square brackets:
Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro

Those in Rio are getting the chance to behold one of the most prized historical documents ever: the Dead Sea Scrolls. Recently open to the public at the Museu Historico Nacional in Rio, the exhibit contains three original scrolls and 7 replicas, along with 80 artifacts and translations to better understand the documents (unless you�re fluent in Aramaic and Hebrew) and for comparisons with biblical texts. A little history lesson: the manuscripts were found throughout eleven caves in the desert of Quaran [That's "Qumran."], preserved due to low humidity and high temperatures since, around, 200 to 70 BC [That's 200 B.C.E. to 70 C.E.]. Historians state its importance is that of a link between Christianity, Judaism and Islamism {I think - I hope! - they mean "Islam."], mainly since the original owners of the documents were Essenes, a Jewish Sect said to have had Jesus Christ as a member [Uh, no on that last bit about Jesus.]. The Pinacoteca of S�o Paulo will be receiving the exhibit on the 29th of October.

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