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Dead Sea Scrolls - Ft Worth, TX
Date:
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Event Invite
- Thanks to Carol Savage, Jim Jones and Donald & Carlanne Hickman
Photos labeled JJ-04/12
provided by Jim Jones
We started out at the Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Ft Worth |
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More than 30 Cowtown Vette members and their families saw
the largest privately
owned Dead Sea Scrolls
collection ever to be on display outside Israel Aug. 4.
Some of the 21 fragments of scrolls had never before been
exhibited.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit at the
MacGorman Performing Arts Center and chapel
of Fort
Worths Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was
followed by a
cruise to Waxahachie for lunch at the
Twisted Frog.
During the cruise members took photos
of historical markers and courthouses in
Cleburne and
in Waxahachie. The route twisted through back roads and
into Keene
and other small communities.
At the
Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit members viewed a video about the
history of how
the Fort Worth seminary obtained the
largest collection of scrolls in the
nation.
Dr. Bruce McCoy, director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit,
was on hand to
welcome some of the Cowtown members and
was impressed by the lineup of Corvettes
outside the
chapel.
Our guide, Erin, an archaelogy major who
had just returned from a
seminary-sponsored dig on the
island of Cyprus, showed a model of Jerusalem. We
also
saw ancient Bibles, including a 1611 first edition of the
King James Bible.
Some members put written prayers into
the crevices of simulated rocks in a
replica of the
Western Wall, or Wailing Wall as it is often called. The
wall is
a holy site in Jerusalem and is believed to be
a retaining wall for the last
Jewish temple, destroyed
by the Romans in 70 A.D.
Don and Karyn Fowler had
their grandchildren, Kathy and Ashley, with them.
Along
with their grandparents, Kathy, 11, and Ashley, 6, visited
the replica of
Qumran, where the scrolls were first
found by Bedoin goat herders in th 1940s.
Kathy dug for
some of the ancient hundreds of pieces of ancient pottery
donated
by the Smithsonian Institution which had been
buried in the dirt. Also, old
coins were buried there.
"One girl who dug unearthed an old column and was
really excited about it,"
Karyn said. ``The guide at
the dig said they could keep whatever they found,
including old coins. She added: "I thought the tour
was very interesting and amazing."
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...Jim Jones
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Donald & Carlanne then led us on a cruise |
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Some great historic courthouses in
Cleburne and
Waxahachie before reaching our lunch destination of
the
Twisted Frog |
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