Our Quest
Our Quest is to have a quiff, I mean a sniff of the ultimate crusty sensation: The Dead Sea Scrolls.
It's been 50 years since a young Bedouin searching for a goat near the Dead Sea stumbled upon one of the century's most significant archaelogical finds. But all these years later, the Dead Sea Scrolls are still the subject of intense debate. Who really wrote them? What do they tell us about Judaism? Christianity? Who has rightful title to them? And we, at book-sniffing enthusiasts want to know, What do they smell like?
An Exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington,
DC
The Exhibition Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran
and Modern Scolarship shows a selection from the scrolls which have been
the subject of intense public interest. Over the years questions have been
raised about the Scrolls' authenticity, about the people who hid them away,
about the period in which they lived, about the secrets the scrolls reveal,
and about the intentions of the scrolls' custodians in restricting access.
The Library's exhibition describes the historical context of the scroll and
the Qumram community from whence they may have originated; it also relates
the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. In addition, the exhibition
encourages a better understanding of the challenges and complexities connected
with scroll research.
We at book-sniffing enthusiasts, plan to go to the exhibition in Washington, DC, to get our own sniff of the ancient, musty scrolls themselves. Written all those many years ago, we think, for our benefit. So that we can one day discover the aromas, our ancestors left especially for us!
However, there is an institute that has set out to stop us in our quest to sniff the scrolls. They are The Rightful Society for the Prevention of Book Sniffing (RSPBS)
This institute sets out to rid the world of book sniffing. They have been known to: