Dead Sea Scrolls: Demystifying Angels and Demons

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Published August 20, 2007 at 2:16 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

The San Diego Natural History Museum's exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls is the largest, longest, most comprehensive ever assembled in any country. Spanning two floors and 12,000 square feet, 27 Dead

Tom Fudge: The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the earliest examples of written documents known to mankind. An exhibition of many of the scrolls , which were discovered in ancient Palestine, has been on display at San Diego's museum of natural history. The exhibit has attracted a lot of attention from museum goers and scholars.

Tonight Emory University's Carol Newsom lectures on "Angels and Demons in the Dead Sea Scrolls" Monday (tonight) from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the Natural History Museum.

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Carol Newsom, Ph.D. Professor of Theology and Religion, Emory University. Translator and editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls - Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and first women named to the team.