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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/18/00 CONTACT: Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Coming to Greenville College Sept. 25-27The fascinating story of the Dead Sea Scrolls will come to life next Monday through Wednesday in Greenville, Illinois, as an exhibit of the scrolls will be on display to the public at Greenville College. The exhibit will include three extraordinary documents, the Great Scroll of Isaiah, the Habakkuk Commentary, and the Manual of Discipline. The scrolls are replicas of the originals in Jerusalem, reproduced on sheepskin as faithfully as modern technology currently allows. The Great Scroll of Isaiah on display at the Shrine of the Book Museum in Jerusalem is also a replica. The originals are kept in a climate-controlled environment not open to the public. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 by a shepherd in caves near the Dead Sea at Qumran. They were written more than 2,000 years ago in Israel on parchment and papyrus in three languages, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. More information on the Qumran discoveries can be found on the web at http://www.csbr.net/qumran.htm. Pictures and details of the replica scrolls to be displayed at Greenville College are also on the web at http://www.csbr.net/replica.html. The exhibit will be located in the Greenville College Library all day Monday and Tuesday and part of the morning Wednesday, Sept. 25-27. It is free and open for public viewing during normal library hours of 7:30 a.m. - 11:45 p.m. Dr. E. William Bean from the Dead Sea Scroll Foundation in Redlands, CA, is bringing the scrolls to Greenville and will be available at the exhibit in the college library to speak with visitors and answer questions. Dr. Bean will also speak to students and faculty in the college chapel service Monday morning at 9:30 in the Free Methodist Church, and again in a colloquium Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 in Snyder Hall, Room 104. Both events are free and open to the public. He will also be speaking in one or more classes. A 1966 graduate of Greenville College, Dr. Bean is one of only two people ever to have interviewed the shepherd who found the Dead Sea Scrolls. The other is Dr. Weston Fields, also of the Dead Sea Scroll Foundation. Greenville College is a four-year accredited Christian liberal arts school with about 940 traditional residential students and more than 200 adult degree completion and graduate students. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the Free Methodist Church, the college is located in Greenville, Illinois, 45 miles east of St. Louis on Interstate 70. Last updated: September
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