DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Jordan Bans Shows Abroad
<N Z P A ■• Reuter—Copyright) AMMAN (Jordan), May 3. Jordan has banned exhibition of the Dead Sea scrolls in any other country but Jordan, it was officially announced yesterday. Many foreign museums had requested permission to exhibit the scrolls, and a ministerial committee comprising the Jordanian Foreign, Education, Finance, and Public Works Ministers was appointed to consider it Yesterday the comirrfttee took a final decision not to permit the scrolls to be shown abroad. The Dead Sea scrolls, a number of which are in Jordan's possession, were first discovered by an Arab goatherd near the north-west shore of the Dead Sea in 1947. and a large number of other finds have been made since. The scrolls indicate that a religious sect living in the Qumran Desert area, near the Dead Sea, practised a religion akin to Christianity at least a century before Christ
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 17
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150DEAD SEA SCROLLS Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 17
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