090102 Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit

FitSum(Yesterday): Run3.5m 35:16 ended at 7mph! Pu2.
FitSum(Today): Pedom: 4390
To Mile Marker 100: 93.9/100!!

Yea, today my pedometer tracked only the steps I took in the Museum when we saw the Dead Sea Scrolls, as 3 hours of driving doesn't earn you very much.

The exhibit was awesome. Photos weren't allowed, so I drew what notes I could, but now I can't find them. Photos below are from the internet. 

"The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, running until Jan. 4 with extended hours, features 12 scrolls – four of which have never been publicly displayed – and more than 100 artifacts from the Qumran ruins, everyday items from pottery to leather to sandals to basketry.

The exhibit, on loan from the Israel Antiquities Authority, was created specifically for the museum and will never be recreated elsewhere." - WRAL.com 

In 1947, the scrolls were discovered in the Qumran Caves in West Bank, Palestine. Dating from the 3rd century BCE to the 1st century CE,[1] the Dead Sea Scrolls include the oldest surviving manuscripts of entire books later included in the biblical canons. - Wiki. 

Many were just fragments, and the exhibit showed the fragments overlain by the text it matched (from the Testaments), like in this picture from Wiki. It was amazing to see something so old, so fragile, and so overwhelmingly treasured by so many. 

The exhibit also had clay jars and urns from the Qumran. Some were only the size of my thumb! My favorite was an old lamp, much the same shape you'd expect from a magic lamp containing a genie! Without my sketch, I cannot tell if it is the same one, but it looks very close. (Photo from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, which owns the collection I saw.) 

Was supposed to go to the Marine Corps New Years Resolution 5k tomorrow, paid for and all, only miscalced the time it would take to get there :( We could get there, and run it, but the probability of getting back home in time for me to make it to work? Low. Thus, Hubby says we'll run our OWN 5k tomorrow morn, and he'll buy me a shirt. (Yes, I demand a shirt when I run. I only don't have one for the Special Forces 5k I did, and that was due to a lack of Pre-Reg on my part. Lacksidasical.

*Pictures updated 2025, after Blogger ate/destroyed all photo links to the old Picasa.