Thursday evening we met with the Cape Town contingent of the tour for a lecture on the Dead Sea Scrolls. We were shown a DVD on the discovery of the scrolls and the research that has been done since 1947.
There is a very good write-up on Wikipedia on the scrolls and particularly the Great Scroll of Isaiah. Well worth a read for those of you who are sharing in the OT 101 evenings.
We will be visiting the caves of Qumran on the tour.
John Atkinson (our tour leader) had returned from Pretoria on Thursday afternoon with all our passports - he had been to apply for visas for us to enter the Hashamite Kingdom of Jordan. Seeing the visa in one's passports made the whole trip come 'live'!
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