It includes the recent €7m (£5m) acquisition of the original scroll on which De Sade wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille.
The building was evacuated, but Rabbi Oshry said he begged firefighters to allow him to retrieve the synagogue's Torah scrolls, some of which date to 1885, when the synagogue bought the 1850 building from the Norfolk Street Baptist Church.
A new exhibition of more than 500 ancient artifacts from Israel — including 20 of the Dead Sea Scrolls, four of which have never been made available for public viewing — is set to make its world premiere on Oct. 28 at Discovery Times Square in Manhattan, the producers announced.
That game, and its sequels: 2006's Oblivion, which became a massive, studio-defining success for Bethesda during the early Xbox 360 era, and 2011's Skyrim, the soon-to-be-reissued (and remastered) last entry in the series to date (discounting The Elder Scrolls Online, of which the less said the better).
Even that book, famously written on a continuous scroll of paper, which brought him celebrity when it was finally published in 1957, was issued in an unexpurgated edition only four years ago and another early work, And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, written with William S Burroughs in 1945, only saw the light of day in 2008.
The Scroll of Esther, which we read on Purim, makes light of a most serious situation, namely an existential threat to the Jews living in the purported Kingdom of Shushan.
Once she'd laid some knowledge on me, I dipped my quill into an ink pot Jim had supplied and tried to scribble a few meaningful paragraphs down on a scroll of parchment, which my dutiful assistant then typed and posted to the VICE site.
However, the reviewers criticized it for its choppy scrolling and sound, of which they said "David Whittaker has already produced much better sound".
The papyrus scrolls of Herculaneum, which were discovered in 1752, have long fascinated and frustrated lovers of antiquity.
The scroll's 15 episodes (of which only a portion are visible here) include depictions of a tea ceremony, couples swaddled in luxurious bedding and satisfied clients settling up with the house.
