Don't miss.The Ten Commandments Ten Commandments or Decalogue [Gr.,=ten words], in the Bible, the summary of divine law given by God to Moses on Mt. Sinai. They have a paramount place in the ethical system in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. October 10-18, 2009 Centre Block, Level 3 For 80 hours only, ROM visitors can see one of the oldest surviving copies of The Ten Commandments. Dead Sea Scrolls Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient leather and papyrus scrolls first discovered in 1947 in caves on the NW shore of the Dead Sea. Most of the documents were written or copied between the 1st cent. B.C. and the first half of the 1st cent. A.D. : Words that Changed the World October 10, 2009-January 3, 2010 The second rotation of Dead Sea Scrolls opens October 10. If you've already visited, come back to see scroll fragments from Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Isaiah Commentary, War Scroll, Communal Ceremony, Papyrus papyrus (pəpī`rəs), a sedge (Cyperus papyrus), now almost extinct in Egypt but so universally used there in antiquity as to be the hieroglyphic symbol for Lower Egypt and a common motif in art. Bar Kokhba Bar Kokhba orig. Simeon bar Kosba (died AD 135) Leader of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Roman rule in Palestine. In 131 Hadrian forbade circumcision and built a temple to Jupiter on the ruins of the Temple of Jerusalem. 46, Minor Prophets in Greek, and a new Psalms fragment. |
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