Dead Sea Scrolls at the Science Museum: Ancient fragments with well-hidden secrets | Twin Cities Daily Planet

Tertullian once asked, "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem." What, indeed, does Collegeville have to do with Nag Hammadi and Qumran? Perhaps the modernist Monastery is hoping for the glamour of this archeological find to rub off on their atheist illustrated and deceptively packaged Illustrated "Bible".

On display adjacent to The Dead Sea Scrolls is an exhibit showcasing the St. John’s Bible, an illuminated manuscript commissioned by St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota; it’s the first handwritten illuminated Bible to be created anywhere in the world since the Middle Ages. [That's a piece of humbug pronounced by the Abbey and it's not true. There have been illustrated Bibles since then.] The pages on display are striking, and the small exhibit is an eye-opening introduction to a remarkable project being executed just up the highway. - J.G.

Dead Sea Scrolls at the Science Museum: Ancient fragments with well-hidden secrets | Twin Cities Daily Planet