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Read about the ROM Dead Sea Scrolls project here »
Good general backgrounder on the Dead Sea Scrolls at Wikipedia. Read more here »
"These words did not 'change the world' "
NEW! A blog on the Dead Sea Scrolls by The Rev. Dr. John Hurd, a leading New Testament scholar and retired professor at Trinity College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto - here » |
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DEAD SEA SCROLLS - CCDP's SPECIAL ROM-GUIDED TOUR
PromiseLand invites you to a guided tour of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Sunday October 18, 2009 at 2 pm. All are welcome to join the tour - parishioners, family, friends, neighbours!
On Sunday, October 18 after the 9:15 am service, a light lunch will take place at CCDP. Afterwards we will travel by subway to the Royal Ontario Museum’s exhibit.
Pre-registration is required. Adults - $27; Seniors (65+) - $24; Students - $24; children (ages 4 -14) - $15.50.
Please contact Samantha Caravan at email or 416-920-5211 x 27.
If you are not able to join us for this event you may purchase discounted admission by going to www.rom.on.ca/scrolls and buying tickets online using the promo code DEER. Print your tickets and just walk right in.
Please note that you cannot buy the promo tickets and join the tour. The tour is a pre-registration event only.
- Download this information here » (54k MS Word .doc)
- Registration form for this event here »
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- an online exhibit about the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Library of Congress website here »
- "Roughly 900 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 BCE, and preserve evidence of considerable diversity of belief and practice within late Second Temple Judaism..."
Read extensive Wikipedia backgrounder here »
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