When a Roman Catholic scholar involved in the Dead Sea Scrolls Project discovers a heretical message contained in one of the Scrolls he hides it. Decades later, a prominent archeologist discovers reference to the scroll in an archeological dig. This discovery spurs the world religions into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, in which all who seek the hidden scroll are mysteriously silenced, leaving the salvation of humankind to a father and son, who must either find the hidden scroll … or die trying.
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Franklin Institute exhibit to feature fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls

By David O'Reilly, Inquirer Staff Writer
Ossuaries, ceramic boxes found in a cave outside Jerusalem,will be part of the exhibit coming to Philadelphia. Some bear Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek inscriptions. Courtesy of the Franklin Institute
Ossuaries, ceramic boxes found in a cave outside Jerusalem,will be part of the exhibit… (Ossuaries, ceramic boxes)

When the Franklin Institute opens its "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit May 12, visitors will catch a glimpse of one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time.

Centerpiece of the exhibit will be 20 scroll fragments found in the 1940s in Palestine near the Dead Sea. They are part of an extraordinary trove of nearly 1,000 parchments that include the oldest surviving texts of the Jewish Bible, several of which will be on display in Philadelphia.

Penned between 150 B.C. and A.D. 70 and sealed in urns, the scrolls make no mention of Jesus of Nazareth. But three ceramic bone-boxes in the vast exhibit will likely intrigue anyone interested in early Christian history.

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