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Museum of the Bible displays rare Book of Isaiah scroll

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Museum of the Bible displays rare Book of Isaiah scroll
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  • Museum of the Bible in Washington DC is displaying a fresh rotation of Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • The rotation includes a rare Book of Isaiah fragment, portions of Tobit, and phylacteries.
  • The exhibition opens next month and runs through September.

The rotation replaces earlier fragments from Psalms, Numbers and Lamentations with a different set of texts. Visitors can also see portions of the Book of Tobit and fragments of phylacteries. , but these scrolls date from the second century BC to the first century AD, shaving off 1,000 years of manuscript transmission.

The exact opening date and the full list of fragments have not been specified.

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