We're planning a trip to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Friday August 7 to see the Dead Sea scrolls. The scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in eleven caves on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea. They consist of roughly 900 documents, 40% of which are texts from the Hebrew Bible, and are of great historical and religious significance.

The Dead Sea scrolls include some of the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 AD. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus.