For more Purim-related activities, students can create their own Megillah – the scroll that is read out on the holiday – to tell the story of the festival, complete with illustrations and symbols to denote the moral of their tales.
Yoni Cohen, the executive director of Temple Ohel Simcha, went to fetch the scroll that evening from its ark, where it is stored with several other Torahs.
Their presence in the scrolls that conclude the show, a few of them produced in the early 20th century, brings the calligraphic saga full circle.
In 1999 and 2000, a team from Brigham Young University had, in fact, conducted an MSI study on some of the scrolls that had already been opened.
After the turn of the century, a textile artist in Japan made tapestry reproductions of the scrolls that were shown in the Japanese pavilion of the 1904 World's Fair in St . Louis
Successful experimental studies on the scrolls that are reverse engineered to operate in the expansion mode recommend their use in the ORCs over conventional turbines when the power capacities lie in the range of 1 50 kWe.
And for that, they loved him; he was now the man who held the scrolls that would change their destiny, the PR prophet, Moses with a radio mic.
When written scrolls were produced, different communities had different scrolls, no one community had all of the scrolls that would eventually be in the Bible, although many would have had the Torah.
The collection grew around the scrolls; that's why the box Delattre showed me was labelled "Objet Un".
Dr. Schiffman, too, had a theory about the scrolls: that they belonged to a sect called the Sadducees, but that some came from other sources — a theory that Norman Golb said borrowed from his own.
Some scholars believe, in the light of the scrolls, that the Gospel according to John, which hitherto was thought to have been written late and under the influence of the movement part Persian, part Platonic that goes by the name of Gnosticism, must actually have come out of the sect and be the most, instead of the least, Jewish of all the Gospels.
