Each panel, which recalls a Biblical scroll, is a 31- by 22-inch rectangle.
(A 12-minute version of this play was staged in Calcutta in November, and the scroll is a souvenir).
The Lost Treasure of the Copper Scroll The Copper Scroll is a first century AD document discovered in caves at Qumran in Israel in 1952.
Restoring a handwritten Torah scroll is a long and complex process, Dr. Ray said, and he expects the work on Temple Isaiah's Torah to take several months.
A scroll is a journey through real time: one hand unrolls it as the reading or looking progresses, the other hand rolls up the part that has been perused.
Unlike books, curling up with a good scroll is a bad thing.
Unfolding the scroll is a tangible experience that gives a full screen view of the selected item.
The thirteen-column scroll is a pesher, or "interpretation", of the Book of Habakkuk.
"The Book" (the scrolls) is an Enigma, also.
The tranquil sensibility of the Buddhas and calligraphy scrolls is an ideal match for the gallery's peaceful atmosphere.
He saw that this-happened-and-then-that-happened had literary possibilities, and the scroll was a way of forcing himself to stick to this vision.
