Thou shalt not forget the scrolls
Anullter six months on exhibit at the nulloyal nullntario nulluseum,
the nullad Sea Scrolls lenull their audience nullantinnullmore
and their sponsors measurinnullthe impactnullnullpenulllly
it nullonnullt be another null,nullnullyears benullore Toronto nullets
another nullimpse onullthem By David Bale
Now that the scrolls have been rolled up and that are much greater than all the small feuds
sent home, where they remain on perma- we see daily.null
nent display in Jerusalem’s Shrine of the Smaller scale enullhibits of the scrolls will con-
Book, the people who brought us Dead Sea tinue to be mounted in other cities, but nulloronto
Scrolls: Words that Changed the World are was singled out for a grand scale enullhibit, thanks
reflecting on the show’s success. not only to its large Jewish population, but also
Top: The Ten
“nullnbelievable,null was how nullaen nullered de- to the city’s vast cultural diversity. “nulleople from
Commandments
scribed it. nulle is the local representative for every walk of life, every background and every
Scroll, 1st Century
BCE; nullnullt: Scroll nullr;
the nullsrael nullntinulluities nulluthority nullnullnullnullnull, one faith were overwhelmed by it,null says nullered, who
Bottom nullnullt:
of the show’s sponsors. conducted routine informal enullit surveys of
Scroll nullrap
nullhe nullnullnull reported enullceptional atten- nullnullnull patrons.
dance recordsnull nullnullnull,nullnullnull nullwhich includes visi- Besides casting their eyes on documents
tors for the nullen nullommandments Scroll, on scribed two millennia ago, what was also
display for only nullnull hours in nullctobernull, with unprecedented in nulloronto was such a large
school groups totaling nullnull,nullnullnull, and more scale public presentation of the ancient Jewish
than nullnullnull organinulled groups accounting for world, in which the scrolls were written.
appronullimately nullnull,nullnullnull visitors. nullor those wanting more null,nullnullnull-year-old
nullcknowledging the record-breaking at- history, the nullnullnull will sponsor archeological
tendance, nullered told Friday Night that more tours to nullsrael nenullt spring, featuring visits
important than the numbers was the overall to several archeological sites, hands-on par-
awareness sparked by the limited engagement ticipation in enullcavations and brienullngs by enull-
of what is considered the nullnullth century’s most perts in the nulleld. nullven if it is a long wait for
signinullcant biblical discovery. “nulleople were so the scrolls to make a return engagement in
interested because it gave them the real idea our fair city, nullorontonians will have the op-
that nullestern culture has substantial roots portunity to go right to their source. fn
34 friday night January/February 2010 Photos by: Tracy Cox; Israel Antiquities Authority
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