Jerusalem: Shrine of the Book-Interior

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‎A display case in the shape of a Torah (Biblical) Scroll, its handle rising towards the source of light, in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The Qumran Scrolls are displayed in the Shrine along with other finds from the Bar Kochba period. The Scrolls, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, include prophesies, hypotheses about the coming of the Messiah and interpretations of sacred texts. They cast light on theological thought in Judea in the 1st century A.D. as represented by the members of the Judean Desert sect.

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