Thursday, September 10, 2009 7:40 AM
dead sea scroll experience
I went to see the dead sea scroll with churchies at The ART museum.learn a couple of interested facts from the curator.3 things I learnt.
1)Did you know the people make use of DNA to piece up the scroll together due to it being destroy to tiny pieces cause by the exposure to environment?
2)They made use of infared red ;as the animal skin used was darkened so the words cannot be seen,but by using infared red the words are seen and they can join the scroll together
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3)Did you know that the dead sea scroll were scriptures written on animal skin?
These Three were interesting facts that I know.
I really appreciated the written 1522 bible which bring about all the other translation that eventually make it possible to have a english translation.
I guess the people that pieces the fragmented piece of scroll/scripture together should be very good with jigsaw puzzle and all this require patience and the motivation to do it.Which God has provided them with ,if not nothing can sustain them from piecing the whole bible together.That through this people we can read God's written love letter to us.
God had also given the people great wisdom to put the scroll in clay jar/pots so that the the scrolls did not get destroy greatly till the time people discover the existence of the dead sea scroll.
Thats shows our God is a God of wisdom,of perfect and timely plan and a God that assign job to different individual according to his perfect will.
Lastly,I get to touch and have a feel of the bible and view their footnotes.The paper use is 80% cotton material.
photos below
bible scroll written on animal skin;Ans:on sheep skin (below)
Fragmented piece of the bible scroll detected through infared red (below)
Where The scroll were kept : in the clay jar (below)
Where the bible scroll were found (below)
The fist bible that went to space (below)
