Dead Sea Scrolls - Ft Worth, TX Date: Saturday, August 4, 2012 Event Invite - Thanks to Carol Savage, Jim Jones and Donald & Carlanne Hickman Photos labeled JJ-04/12 provided by Jim Jones
We started out at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft Worth | | |  | | | | | | | | |  |  | | | | | | | More than 30 Cowtown Vette members and their families saw the largest privately
owned Dead Sea Scrolls collection ever to be on display outside Israel Aug. 4.
Some of the 21 fragments of scrolls had never before been exhibited.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit at the MacGorman Performing Arts Center and chapel
of Fort Worth’s Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was followed by a
cruise to Waxahachie for lunch at the Twisted Frog.
During the cruise members took photos of historical markers and courthouses in
Cleburne and in Waxahachie. The route twisted through back roads and into Keene
and other small communities.
At the Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit members viewed a video about the history of how
the Fort Worth seminary obtained the largest collection of scrolls in the
nation.
Dr. Bruce McCoy, director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit, was on hand to
welcome some of the Cowtown members and was impressed by the lineup of Corvettes
outside the chapel.
Our guide, Erin, an archaelogy major who had just returned from a
seminary-sponsored dig on the island of Cyprus, showed a model of Jerusalem. We
also saw ancient Bibles, including a 1611 first edition of the King James Bible.
Some members put written prayers into the crevices of simulated rocks in a
replica of the Western Wall, or Wailing Wall as it is often called. The wall is
a holy site in Jerusalem and is believed to be a retaining wall for the last
Jewish temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D.
Don and Karyn Fowler had their grandchildren, Kathy and Ashley, with them.
Along with their grandparents, Kathy, 11, and Ashley, 6, visited the replica of
Qumran, where the scrolls were first found by Bedoin goat herders in th 1940s.
Kathy dug for some of the ancient hundreds of pieces of ancient pottery donated
by the Smithsonian Institution which had been buried in the dirt. Also, old
coins were buried there.
"One girl who dug unearthed an old column and was really excited about it,"
Karyn said. ``The guide at the dig said they could keep whatever they found,
including old coins. She added: "I thought the tour was very interesting and amazing."
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Donald & Carlanne then led us on a cruise |  | Some great historic courthouses in Cleburne and Waxahachie before reaching our lunch destination of the Twisted Frog |  |  | | | | | |
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