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Toto · 06-24-2005, 02:39 PM

I have been vaguely aware of an exhibit that is touted as containing parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls traveling around the US.

Ink and Blood

This story finally clarifies what is going on.

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Ink & Blood: Dead Sea Scrolls to the English Bible was organized by Dr. William Noah, a Nashville-area pulmonologist, and traces the evolution of the Bible from early writings to the Dead Sea Scrolls to translations into Latin, German, French, and, most importantly from the exhibit's point of view, English.

Noah, 44, pulled the exhibit together from private collections, including his own. He doesn't have any formal training in biblical studies, but he has studied on his own and traveled around the world to see important Bibles and other artifacts. He wrote the panels that explain the objects and had scholars in the field review them, he said.

Ink & Blood isn't Noah's first Bible-related exhibition. In Dallas and Akron, Ohio, Noah and Bruce Ferrini, an Ohio art collector, and Lee Biondi, a California antiquities expert, put together an exhibit under a company called HisStory LLC. That exhibit included Dead Sea Scroll fragments from Ferrini's private collection.

The partnership broke up, and HisStory filed for bankruptcy in February 2004. In a related lawsuit, Noah accused Ferrini of taking close to $400,000 of the Dallas exhibition's profits and not giving Noah some $28,000 from gift-shop sales of videotapes and books created by Noah.

Since the breakup of HisStory, Biondi has put together a competing traveling exhibition called The Dead Sea Scrolls to the Bible in America. That exhibit was in Paducah earlier this year.

Weston Fields, executive director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation, calls this exhibit misleading.

The exhibit contains the Marzeah Papyrus, which is considered a probably forgery by some scholars.

Chris Weimer · 06-24-2005, 09:10 PM

I was going to go see it here in Tennessee, but decided not to after reading up on what it really stored.

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Chris Weimer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: none Posts: 9,879	I was going to go see it here in Tennessee, but decided not to after reading up on what it really stored.

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