Yea! I got re-inspired to rewrite my thoughts, although they are not originally what I had written about my Scrolls experience its an acceptable substitute. I was writing an email to a friend and realized everything I wrote to him, I could enter in my blog. The email I was writing inspired me to replace something of what I lost before I remembered the age old computer know how to save, save, save, and save again...anyway here it is...enjoy!
I had a group of 31 people and that in itself was a challenge. I met it with some ease and will probably undertake something like that again when the right event happens. I hope everyone had a great time...
The Dead Sea Scrolls was fantastic. I felt the Union Station did a good job with the exhibit and I was surprised that they did such a good job. Although, the Titanic was also very good, so I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised. There were a couple of people with special needs and I noticed one eased in nicely and the other could have had their needs better met....but the security is there for a reason, what you can and cannot take with you is all about safety for the exhibit contents...that being said, I was amazed like a little kid, at what I saw. I read scrolls that were undoubtedly the earliest written form of Scriptures found. I was amazed to read the Ten Commandments, Genesis, and the Psalms, etc. The scrolls that are commentaries were amazing to read, as well. It was like the Newsweek or Time of its day...are they too liberal or conservative? I'm not into that so you tell me..it just for example. Reading, basically articles on Isaiah or Job...What people 1000 years ago thought of the scriptures and to write it out, wow!!! what a find indeed. I particularly like the books of Job and the Psalms (they are particular favorites); also Deuteronomy, Genesis, and Isaiah, to name a few were represented. The Apocryphal Scrolls mentioned the coming of the "Son of the one Most High" or the "Son of God." I find it interesting to note the reverence the peoples placed on the "name" of God. They never actually referred to "God" by name and even went so far as to write the "One Most High" in a different script or font if you will, to set if off from the rest of the text. That was fascinating to me.
There was a time line in the exhibit that showed what was going on around the world during the time of the scrolls, for example the Chinese inventing gunpowder. It was fascinating, have I said that enough? There were Psalms found, I think there were 250 or more new Psalms that no one ever new existed before this find. I hope that Bedouin boy from 1947 is still out there somewhere and someone finds him and hails his accidental find...all but for a lost goat or was that sheep? We would have not known this life changing part of our human history.
I also appreciated the archaeological finds of the culture of the people. Pieces of cloth, a lice comb, Fruit dates, cookware and dinnerware, the coinage of the time and the city dig itself. There is even an effort to take the actual lice found in the lice combs and extract DNA to see where the people actually came from, who they were (that’s DNA from the human blood ingested by the 1000 years old lice, that is). Isn’t technology wonderful? Sometimes it’s a great thing, sometimes not. In the end it was all good, great even. I would highly recommend this exhibit as a possible once in a lifetime thing. I wouldn’t miss it if it interests you.
I had a group of 31 people and that in itself was a challenge. I met it with some ease and will probably undertake something like that again when the right event happens. I hope everyone had a great time...
The Dead Sea Scrolls was fantastic. I felt the Union Station did a good job with the exhibit and I was surprised that they did such a good job. Although, the Titanic was also very good, so I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised. There were a couple of people with special needs and I noticed one eased in nicely and the other could have had their needs better met....but the security is there for a reason, what you can and cannot take with you is all about safety for the exhibit contents...that being said, I was amazed like a little kid, at what I saw. I read scrolls that were undoubtedly the earliest written form of Scriptures found. I was amazed to read the Ten Commandments, Genesis, and the Psalms, etc. The scrolls that are commentaries were amazing to read, as well. It was like the Newsweek or Time of its day...are they too liberal or conservative? I'm not into that so you tell me..it just for example. Reading, basically articles on Isaiah or Job...What people 1000 years ago thought of the scriptures and to write it out, wow!!! what a find indeed. I particularly like the books of Job and the Psalms (they are particular favorites); also Deuteronomy, Genesis, and Isaiah, to name a few were represented. The Apocryphal Scrolls mentioned the coming of the "Son of the one Most High" or the "Son of God." I find it interesting to note the reverence the peoples placed on the "name" of God. They never actually referred to "God" by name and even went so far as to write the "One Most High" in a different script or font if you will, to set if off from the rest of the text. That was fascinating to me.
There was a time line in the exhibit that showed what was going on around the world during the time of the scrolls, for example the Chinese inventing gunpowder. It was fascinating, have I said that enough? There were Psalms found, I think there were 250 or more new Psalms that no one ever new existed before this find. I hope that Bedouin boy from 1947 is still out there somewhere and someone finds him and hails his accidental find...all but for a lost goat or was that sheep? We would have not known this life changing part of our human history.
I also appreciated the archaeological finds of the culture of the people. Pieces of cloth, a lice comb, Fruit dates, cookware and dinnerware, the coinage of the time and the city dig itself. There is even an effort to take the actual lice found in the lice combs and extract DNA to see where the people actually came from, who they were (that’s DNA from the human blood ingested by the 1000 years old lice, that is). Isn’t technology wonderful? Sometimes it’s a great thing, sometimes not. In the end it was all good, great even. I would highly recommend this exhibit as a possible once in a lifetime thing. I wouldn’t miss it if it interests you.
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