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Dead Sea Scrolls May Come to Utah for Games
The possibility that some of the Dead Sea Scrolls will
be exhibited at the Utah Olympic Games next winter look promising, as officials
from the LDS Church and BYU have negotiated with Jewish authorities from Israel.
Besides several important Dead Sea Scrolls, the exhibit would also feature
the Leningrad Codex, which is the oldest copy of the Hebrew Bible in existence
and has not left the Russian National Museum since the 1930s. The Dead Sea
Scrolls, which were discovered more than half a century ago at Qumran, a site
located near the Dead Sea in Israel and once inhabited by a Jewish sect called
the Essenes, have been an invaluable source to scholars. In fact, the discovery
of these manuscripts, which are some of the oldest known Old Testament manuscripts,
show the accuracy of the Old Testament that is read by Jews, Christians, and
Mormons alike. Until 10 years ago many of the scrolls were accessible only
to certain scholars who were secretly studying them, but photocopies of the
scrolls were finally released in the early 1990s due to immense pressure from
scholars who were not part of the original research. Displaying such items
will certainly give the Mormon Church worldwide credibility in the public
relations push to make Mormonism look more like a biblically-based religion.
(Salt Lake Tribune, 6/22/01)