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| [00:05.15]Many people are visiting a museum in Chicago, Illinois to see ancient documents called the Dead Sea Scrolls. [00:15.44]The world famous writings will be shown at the Field Museum of Natural History until the middle of June. [00:23.98]Museum officials say it is the most extensive exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls in North America. [00:32.10]Officials in Israel lent the documents to the museum. [00:36.94]The Dead Sea Scrolls were written in what is now Israel more than 2,000 years ago. [00:45.22]They represent the oldest surviving copies of the Old Testament of the Bible. [00:51.38]The Jewish and Christian religions consider the Bible to be holy. [00:56.84]The scrolls were discovered in 1947 near Oumran, along the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. [01:05.75]Experts say some of the writings describe the laws and beliefs of the people who wrote them. [01:14.45]Many experts believe the writers were from a group called the Essenes, who lived in Qumran. [01:21.58]Other experts believe the scrolls were written in Jerusalem [01:25.94]and hidden in caves near Qumran to protect them from invading Roman forces. [01:32.73]The Field Museum exhibit contains parts of fifteen of the ancient documents. [01:39.37]They include five documents that have never been shown outside Israel. |
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