Thursday, January 07, 2010

Jordan Asks Canada to Seize the Dead Sea Scrolls

A few months ago, Amanda and I enjoyed seeing the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. It was an incredible opportunity to see these valuable texts that tell us so much about life and religion in Israel around the time of Jesus. Unfortunately, politics always seems to enter in. The country of Jordan has formally requested that Canada seize the Dead Sea Scrolls before they return to Israel. You can read the story here. It will never happen and I can not see what Jordan would hope to gain be even making such a request.