I went to see an exhibit about the Dead Sea Scrolls in Kansas City, yesterday. It was a quick trip with a lot of time spent driving, but I am glad I went. The exhibit had a few pieces, what I would imagine were some of the best preserved scrolls. They had them in special environmentally controlled cases with lights that came on every 15 seconds or so and stayed on for about 5 seconds. Actually seing the scroll segments was neat, but they were in a different language and it is just writing (in languages I cannot understand) on parchment. For me, the most interesting parts of the exhibit were the historical and cultural explanations of the time during which the scrolls were written and the research that has been done since they were rediscovered in the 1940s. The information on the gradual cannonization process of Jewish and Christian scriptures was also very enlightening.
Now for some exciting news concerning Jeremy: He defended his dissertation at SDSU last Thursday. He has some minor reformatting issues to take care of (i.e. making sure the table of contents meets all specifications), but other than that he is finished. Yippy! Not having it hanging over his head is a great relief for him. I was all ready to go out and celebrate when he got back on Friday ... but when I got home from school he was passed out on the couch catching up on sleep instead. Understandable.
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Hey, I've been to where the scrolls were discovered! Qumran or something, right? Mostly I remember watching this video there, and the narrator was all dramatic and said something about, "And they went down into the [something] to DIE!!"
Congrats to Javers! I assume this was the reason for celebration and not daylight saving time, as I first conjectured?
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