The parchment was discovered with 900 other manuscripts in 1947 in Khirbet Qumran in Transjordan. Property of Israel, the parchment will be exhibited only two weeks at the Discovery Time Square until the January 2nd and will be a part of a new exhibition: “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times” curated by Risa Levitt Kohn.
This very small document (18 x 3 inches) is the oldest known
text of the ten Commandments, the most complete and best preserved. Time after
time, the parchment became darker and the ink was discolored. The scroll can’t be
exposed under the light and is usually kept in a safe in Israel. Experts date
it 51 BC but his author remain unknown. Many
scholars believe that all the manuscripts, including the Ten Commandments one,
were written by members of a sect who broke away from mainstream Judaism and
lived in the desert.
The scroll was discovered by a young shepherd. He threw away
a pebble in a cave and it broke a crock. When he came the day after he realized that he found an archeological siteThat’s how the parchments could have been showed
to the world.
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