Sitting by the Roadside

We visited the Israel Museum again today, spending all our time inside the Archaeology Museum, except for a brief trip to the Shrine of the Book exhibit and the Nano Bible exhibit. Nano Bible Bookmark speaking about the Nano Bible exhibit. The Nano Bible is the smallest Bible (Tanach--Old Testament--only) in the world.  "Nano" means "dwarf", and that's exactly what describes this Bible.  How big is it?  The size of a grain of sugar. A new technology called Nanotechnology was used in the process of making this Bible.  First, a thin layer of gold was placed over a silicon square.  Then a program directed a laser to engrave the letters of the Bible.  With the program, it took only about an hour and a half to finish engraving the letters of this Bible. Archaeology Museum There were so many things to see in this section of the Israel Museum that I could only post a few photos!  My camera memory disc crashed and these photos were tak...

The Israel Museum is open seven days a week.  Kids age 17 & under are free on Tuesdays and certain holidays.  There is one day in Sukkot when everyone is free. The Shrine of the Book Exhibit This structure outside the Shrine of the Book exhibit represents the shape of the top of the clay jar in which the first Dead Sea Scrolls were found.  It also represents the sons of light. If you turn 180 degrees from the previous structure, this is what you'll see.  The black stone wall is said to represent the sons of darkness. The Shrine of the Book exhibit displays a portion of the Isaiah scroll.  No photos are allowed inside the exhibit, but I think it is well since the awe of seeing objects from thousands of years ago is too great for words to describe! You can even find two plates of charred dates  and a few scroll fragments--including the Aleppo Codex--in other parts of the exhibit. Model of Jerusalem in the Time of the Romans This m...