let lemons be angry

Dead sea scrolls. From the unusually packed queue going into the arts house I was expecting a setup of caves and Israeli music, maybe re-enactments of Moses writing books and them being copied. What we did see of the dead sea scrolls was this:

Five of these small framed fragments, to be precise, each as small as a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. (Whereas the words on the exhibition panels were strangely very very big. Point size 96?) There was a lot of information on the various copies of the Bible. But I felt not enough was made of how amazing it is that the Bible was copied accurately over thousands of years. The dead sea scrolls were found in a relatively recent time. Finding that these earliest copies of the Bible books matched later copies word for word proved that no mistake had been made by the scribes who painstakingly copied them out. That does wonders to prove the reliability of any historical text.

How painstaking? Haha. This quote has inspired us to try. I mean it.

In the activity room: people copied out entire chapters of the Bible. If we got anything out of this exhibition, it's to try copying out the entire Bible over the course of a year. For what, we shall see. It can only be a good exercise. Here's to dimmed eyes and chests and bellies knitted together!