Dead Sea Scrolls heralded a success
Now that I am paying attention to the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit at the Rom it looks like as if it is turning into quite a success. The Globe and Mail:
Attendance at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World exhibition has exceeded even its organizers’ most hopeful projections, attracting an average of more than 2,000 people each day since it opened.
In the nine days after the Toronto exhibition opened on June 27, 18,324 people attended, exceeding the museum’s projections by 52 per cent, the ROM announced yesterday. And the ROM will hope to draw return visitors, as the 16 scrolls to be displayed are split between two three-month stints, the second of which begins in October. Dating as far back as the third century BC, but discovered just 60 years ago, the Scrolls include the oldest known examples of the Hebrew Bible as well as other religious and secular texts.
Attendance at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Dead Sea Scrolls: Words that Changed the World exhibition has exceeded even its organizers’ most hopeful projections, attracting an average of more than 2,000 people each day since it opened.
Since one of the writings on display in the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit contains the Tehillim, and it has now been co-opted as an ancient book of Palestinian-Arab prayers, I thought I would give my readers a picture of what said book looks like. Lucky for you, I just happen to have such a book on my desk. In fact, it is rarely out of my reach. Although, someone might want to have a word with the Kehot people for publishing such a book.
