Wow…I had quite a trip today. I went up to Seattle with my old Hebrew Prof and his first year Hebrew Class to see the Dead Sea Scrolls. It was pretty darn cool. I was amazed by a couple of things.
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How small the scrolls and the writing on them were. Those things were tiny, and they were mostly written in about the equivalent of 10pt font.
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That even though they were so old, some of them were so legible. The Psalms Scroll (Ps. 199) was a full 8 leaves long, and the scribe who copied it had incredible handwriting. I could read it like a book. I was stoked! The other thing that was cool was reading God’s divine name. It was writting in Paleo-Hebrew script in the scroll, so it really stood out. It was so cool to see such sacred manuscripts first hand. I will remember it for the rest of my life.
Now…to Israel to see the Great Isaiah scroll…that’s my next goal!
