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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Dead Sea Scroll Put on Rare Display in Israel


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Hebrew University students study parts of the Dead Sea scrolls in an undated photograph.

One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah is going on display in Jerusalem this week, more than four decades after it was last seen by the public.

Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart/NGS