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One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem more than four decades after it was seen by the public. The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. The museum decided to put the scroll back on show for three months as part of Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations. President Bush, visiting Israel this week for the anniversary celebration, will be one of the first to view it. The Isaiah manuscript was the only complete biblical book discovered among the Dead Sea scrolls, one of the great archaeological finds of the 20th century. The ancient documents, which include fragments of the books of the Old Testament and treatises on communal living and apocalyptic war, have shed important light on Judaism and the origins of Christianity.
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