Israel Museum puts Dead Sea scroll on rare display

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A museum employee points at the Book of Isaiah from the Dead Sea scrolls at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem Tuesday May 13 2008. One of the most important of the Dead Sea scrolls is going briefly on display in Jerusalem this week more than four d ...
A museum employee points at the 'Book of Isaiah' from the Dead Sea scrolls at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem, Tuesday May 13, 2008. One of the most important of the Dead Sea scrolls is going briefly on display in Jerusalem this week more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

(AP) -- One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem this week - more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment.


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