Dead Sea Scrolls Remnants To Show at Museum of Idaho

IDAHO
FALLS,
Idaho
(AP) – Surviving fragments of The Dead Sea Scrolls will appear alongside some
of the oldest bibles and religious texts preserved by history at the

Museum of
Idaho.

Museum officials will
announce details of the exhibit on Tuesday.

The exhibit will come to

Idaho Falls in February.

It’s titled Ink and Blood —
Dead Sea Scrolls to the King James Bible.

Also on display will be 5,000
year-old examples of the earliest writing and Jewish texts dating to 700 B-C.

Several historic Bibles,
including the first handwritten Bible in English and leaves from the Guttenberg
Bible, will be on display.

A First edition of the King
James Version will also show in the exhibit.

It’s the first time the Dead
Sea Scrolls and many of the Bibles will travel to

Idaho.

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