Unlocking the Dead Sea Scrolls - P1/2

http://SupremeMasterTV.com – Unlocking the Dead Sea Scrolls - P1/2. Episode: 1746, Air Date: 26 June 2011.

Welcome, esteemed viewers, to A Journey through Aesthetic Realms.

Today, we will visit the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation in Jerusalem which takes care of the preservation, exhibition and publishing of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Also called the Qumran Scrolls, these precious documents have even been regarded as the most important archeological finding of the 20th century. They are by far the oldest existing scrolls of biblical scriptures studied in three of the world’s major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

My name is Pnina Shor and I’m a head of a new unit that the Israel Antiquities Authority established to take care of the Dead Sea Scrolls. So the unit is called Dead Sea Scrolls Project, and what we do is we take care of the scrolls physically, meaning conservation and preservation of the scrolls. We do all the curatorial work. We are in charge of the Dead S