1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Life Audio, Doctor Duke, thanks for joining me. 2 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 2: Oh well, thank you for having me, Michael. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,560 Speaker 1: Doctor Bobby Duke, chief curatorial officer at the Museum of 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,720 Speaker 1: the Bible in Washington, DC, which has an incredible new 5 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit, Doctor Duke, like I was telling 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: you before we started here, I visited the Museum of 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: the Bible last fall. I was blown away, just blown 8 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: away by everything there. I could have spent weeks there. 9 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 1: I had like three hours. You know, That's how it 10 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: usually is with people at museums. Unfortunately for me, I 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: did not get to see this Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit. 12 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:39,160 Speaker 1: It opened after I left, but I'm looking forward maybe 13 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,959 Speaker 1: to seeing it in the future. Give us a preview 14 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: of what this Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit is, and while 15 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: you're at it, tell us the significance of the Dead 16 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:50,480 Speaker 1: Sea Scrolls. 17 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, thank you Michael for asking about our current 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 2: special exhibit that is opened in November of twenty twenty 19 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 2: five and will be open until September after Labor Day 20 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: of twenty six. So we have an extensive exhibit. This 21 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,959 Speaker 2: is an exhibit that was put together by the Israel 22 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 2: Antiquities Authority and they are actually traveling it around North America. 23 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:11,800 Speaker 2: So right before it came to us, it was at 24 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 2: the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library at Simi Valley, California, and 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: then it came to us, and then it'll travel to 26 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 2: a couple other spots in North America. Because it is 27 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 2: the seventy fifth anniversary tour of the Dead Sea Scrolls 28 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 2: that were found in the late nineteen forties, the exhibit 29 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 2: itself tells much more than just the Dead Sea Scrolls. 30 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 2: It really is an entire exhibit about what we call 31 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: Second Temple Judaism to give us a sense of what 32 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 2: life was like two thousand years ago. That arguably the 33 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 2: most significant archaeological discovery of that era from that era 34 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: was the Dead Sea Scrolls. 35 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: Larry to press release here for just to kind of 36 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: sum up what's going on there, It says the Dead 37 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 1: Sea Scrolls artifacture of the oldest known copies of Biblical 38 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: text and are one of the greatest archaeological finds of 39 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: our lifetime. Doctor Dug's my understanding that when the Dead 40 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: Sea Scrolls were discovered, some skeptics around the world, some 41 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 1: skeptics of the Bible, expected the contents to differ from 42 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: what we had at the time and what we still have. 43 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,080 Speaker 1: But when scholars, of course started looking at what the 44 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: Dead Sea scrolls contained, it was largely what we already 45 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: had correct correct well. 46 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 2: There were basically, if you think, kind of three groupings 47 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,640 Speaker 2: of Biblical texts or of texts that were found among 48 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,880 Speaker 2: the deadsy scrolls. The Biblical texts, the ones that were 49 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 2: texts that were already known but were not in the Bible. 50 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 2: And then there were documents that are often labeled as 51 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 2: sectarian documents. These are ones that were not known before 52 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 2: in the history of literature and were connected to that 53 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 2: group at Kumran where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered. 54 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,519 Speaker 2: But as you're right, the Biblical text were the first 55 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: wave of research, simply because you had something to compare 56 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: to that we already knew before the scrolls were found. 57 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 2: Our earliest Biblical texts were what are called the Massoretic 58 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 2: texts from right around one thousand a d. Give or 59 00:02:58,160 --> 00:02:59,920 Speaker 2: take fifty or one hundred years either side of a 60 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 2: thousand and eight, whereas the Dead Sya scroll some of 61 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 2: them are dated back to the second even third century BC, 62 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 2: so over one thousand years earlier than our best text 63 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: before nineteen forty seven, and as you were saying, the 64 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 2: thought was what kind of new revelations and or are 65 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 2: just shocking scandals that we're going to find when we 66 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 2: look into these texts, and in general, there was a 67 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,239 Speaker 2: lot of fidelity between what we have from two thousand 68 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,160 Speaker 2: years ago and what we can compare it to with 69 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 2: the Masterotic text from a thousand years ago. There are 70 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 2: some variants in any good modern English study Bible. You'll 71 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 2: see in your notes in the margins it'll say maybe 72 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 2: Dead Sea Scrolls read or Kumron reads. But if you actually, 73 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 2: as a reader of an English Bible, look at all 74 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: those notes and start asking yourself how significant is this, 75 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 2: you're going to realize that most of them are incredibly minor. So, yes, 76 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 2: the Dead Sea Scrolls give us a lot of confidence 77 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: in the Biblical text. 78 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing in of course, the deadsy Scrolls is 79 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: the Old Testament, but when we're talking about the New 80 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: Testament in terms of vary instances, there's nothing that says 81 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: that changes doctrine. And I think that's what what was 82 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: Scholars often said, there's nothing that changes doctrine. Would you 83 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: agree that studying the Deadsia Scrolls can kind of strengthen 84 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,760 Speaker 1: the faith of Bible readers. Yeah. 85 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: So again I can only speak for myself, but as 86 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 2: a scholar of Deadzi scrolls, I did my phdt UCLA 87 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 2: in the scrolls, worked on some of the Aramaic non 88 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 2: Biblical documents. But my study of the scrolls, particularly the 89 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 2: Biblical scrolls, has only given me more confidence in the 90 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 2: Bible that I read. And again it even gives me 91 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 2: more confidence for those who haven't had the ability to 92 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:34,719 Speaker 2: study Hebrew like I, who are reading their English. You 93 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 2: can trust your English Bibles. And it goes back to 94 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 2: these manuscripts that again are over two thousand years old. 95 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: And this of course is at the museum in the 96 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: Bible through when through September through September. 97 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 2: You have it for another nine months, and it is 98 00:04:48,839 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 2: one where it is truly stunning to be able to 99 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 2: look at the Biblical text. And currently we're going to 100 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 2: have three waves of text between when it opened in 101 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:00,480 Speaker 2: November and September. Dead Sea scroll fragments and text are 102 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 2: only allowed to be outside of Israel for three months 103 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 2: at a time preservation reasons, so we will get during 104 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 2: our nine and a half month exhibit three different sets 105 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,919 Speaker 2: of eight documents, and then when they go back to Israel, 106 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: they have to hibernate for five years in climate controlled 107 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 2: and light controlled vaults, just to make sure fifty one hundred, 108 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 2: two hundred years from now scholars and the world still 109 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 2: have access to these texts that are truly fragile. 110 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: Let's talk about a couple of other parts of the exhibit. 111 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: One is called them. How can't I pronounce this? Maybe 112 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: you can hit me out the Magdala tech, the Mgdala's 113 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: stone m A g da la mcdalas stone. 114 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:37,559 Speaker 2: What is that? So? The Magdala stone and the word 115 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 2: Magdala is the city of Magdala on the western shore 116 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 2: of the Sea of Galilee. We are familiar with this 117 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:47,120 Speaker 2: from reading the New Testament. It is the hometown of 118 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:51,599 Speaker 2: Mary Magdalen. I see you was from Magdala. And in 119 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 2: a decade or more ago, they were doing a construction 120 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 2: project at this side of Magdala. They were building a 121 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 2: Catholic retreat center and guesthouse. And during the construction they 122 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: hit the floor of a first century synagogue. Well, in Israel, 123 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: whenever you have a building project and you hit archaeology, 124 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 2: your building project gets sidelined until you know what is 125 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 2: actually under the ground there, and this first Satry synagogue 126 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 2: has now actually been built into the architecture of the 127 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 2: guest house, so it is still there today. You can 128 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 2: go to this first century synagogue. In the middle of 129 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 2: that excavation, they found this limestone table roughly say two 130 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 2: feet by three feet, carved and decorated with imagery from 131 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,919 Speaker 2: the Temple in Jerusalem. So someone took their knowledge of 132 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: the Temple in Jerusalem, came up to the Sea of 133 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 2: Galley carved this limestone table that is the perfect size 134 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 2: for rolling out tourus scrolls. Again we don't know wasn't 135 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: used for rolling out tourist rolls, but it was found 136 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 2: right in the center of the synagogue and it was 137 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 2: one that would be perfect on Shabbat on Sabbath to 138 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:54,480 Speaker 2: roll out tourist scrolls. And we actually have the original 139 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: here at the museum. Several weeks ago we had one 140 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,760 Speaker 2: of the excavators from Magdala here and just was not 141 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 2: a where that we had the original, and she said, wow, 142 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,640 Speaker 2: the the fact simile you have there is truly one 143 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 2: of the best I've ever seen. And I had to 144 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 2: pause her talk and say, we actually have the original 145 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 2: let's let's briefly talk about other. 146 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:16,200 Speaker 1: Parts of the museum. There's a there's When I was there, 147 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: I one of the things that I remember and enjoyed 148 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: looking at was this old church or it's it's a 149 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: I forgot what it begins with an M. You're gonna 150 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: have to really help me here for this one. What 151 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: was that though? It's it's uh, it's h. It not 152 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: only has uh biblical archaeology archeological significance, but also has 153 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: theological significance as well. Tell us about. 154 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,800 Speaker 2: Absolutely so. It's called the Meguido mosaic. Mosaic are these 155 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 2: floors of churches from I mean the Greco Roman period 156 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 2: all the way up through the Byzantine period where you 157 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 2: use little pieces of glass and or stone to create 158 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 2: motiffs or images or depictions on the floor. Well, like 159 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 2: I said earlier, there was a construction project at a 160 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 2: prison in Israel called the Meguido Prison, just down the 161 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 2: road from Tel Meguido, which is most people see as 162 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 2: the site of Armageddon. But inside this prison they were 163 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: doing construction project. While doing the project, they hit this 164 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 2: mosaic floor. Construction project stops. You excavate this floor and 165 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: when it was all said and done, archaeologists date this 166 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: floor to about two thirty a d. So to put 167 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 2: that in context, that's one hundred years before Constantine. That's 168 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:36,600 Speaker 2: one hundred years before the Nicene Creed. And why that's 169 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 2: significant is that window of say the first century up 170 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 2: until Constantine can often be viewed by scholars as a 171 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 2: free for all in Christian theology, a free for all 172 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 2: in Christian practice. But this mosaic floor from our earliest 173 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,560 Speaker 2: church ever discovered has perfect theology. It shows them practicing 174 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: the Eucharist, and it even mentions a centurion, a workman, 175 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 2: and five women in the inscription on the floor. So 176 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: we get this sense of what Paul was talking about 177 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 2: when he said, here there is no Greek or Jews, 178 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 2: slave or free, male or female, but we're all want 179 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: in Christ. And the most significant piece, as you were 180 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,440 Speaker 2: mentioning theologically on one of the inscriptions, it mentions a 181 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 2: woman named Aceptus who's to be honored because she gave 182 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: the table to the honor of the God Jesus Christ. 183 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 2: So we have the earliest statement anywhere outside of scripture 184 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 2: of the divinity of Jesus Christ, one hundred years before 185 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,200 Speaker 2: you actually have things like the Nicene Creede, perfect Christian 186 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 2: Orthodox theology right here on this mosaic floor. And as 187 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: I was mentioning you before we went live, there's only 188 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 2: one place in the world where you can see the 189 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 2: oldest church ever discovered and our oldest pieces of scripture 190 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 2: ever to suvered, and that's your Museum of the Bible. 191 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:49,959 Speaker 1: Let's have before we close, let's just give people on an 192 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: overview of the museum and the Bible. We've talked about 193 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,559 Speaker 1: some specific parts of it. One thing that I was 194 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: really impressed by Doctor Duke when I went there is 195 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: that this is not an old museum. It's a new museum, 196 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: of course, opened in the past what decades to fifteen 197 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 1: years or so. Were covering up on our tenth anniversary 198 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,960 Speaker 1: with synth anniversary. Okay, I was close there. But it's 199 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,160 Speaker 1: not just old stuff. In fact, there's lots of high 200 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: tech displays. It's very family friendly, kid friendly. You could 201 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: take a child there, a team there and they're going 202 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 1: to have a good time. What do you want people 203 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: to know about the Museum of the Bible, who might 204 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 1: who have never been there, who might be wondering what 205 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 1: it is? Yeah, go ahead, Yeah. 206 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 2: No, so I would say that even at the heart 207 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:34,960 Speaker 2: of our mission is that really we want to display 208 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,440 Speaker 2: how the Bible has been a transformative force in history, 209 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: and through all of our exhibits, whether they be our 210 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,679 Speaker 2: History floor that walks you from our earliest knowledge of 211 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 2: scripture all the way up to even we have one 212 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 2: displayed the very first iPhone that ever downloaded the U 213 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 2: version app. I mean, so we have this whole sweep 214 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 2: of history, but we have other floors to focus on 215 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 2: the stories of the Bible. So we have a Hebrew 216 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,880 Speaker 2: Bible interactive walkthrough in twenty minutes, particularly if you have 217 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 2: family or church communities or others they'd struggle with biblical literacy, 218 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,559 Speaker 2: in twenty minutes, you can go through this Hebrew Bible 219 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 2: experience and understand the whole backbone of the Old Testament. 220 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 2: We have, as you said, a children's gallery down on 221 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,160 Speaker 2: our first floor that actually has biblical themes for children 222 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 2: just to play, because we know, particularly when we have 223 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,600 Speaker 2: families that have little kids and older, just have a 224 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,120 Speaker 2: place to kind of relax for a bit and play 225 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: with kids in a biblical friendly environment is fantastic. So 226 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 2: I would say, from the history of the Bible to 227 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:31,319 Speaker 2: the stories of the Bible and ultimately the impact of 228 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 2: the Bible. We have a whole floor dedicated to how 229 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 2: the Bible has impacted art, literature, science. So this is 230 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 2: a one stop shop to get the sense of why 231 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: is the Bible interesting, why is the Bible important? And 232 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,960 Speaker 2: why is the Bible something that everyone needs to know about. 233 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, and like I said, you could spend weeks in there. 234 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: Any good museum you can say that about, and you 235 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: can spend weeks in the Museum of the Bible if 236 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: you want to. But you can also just get a 237 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: through three hour overview if you just have that amount 238 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 1: of time. But it's well worth a visit, family friendly, enjoyable, 239 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,280 Speaker 1: it's awesome. I highly encourage people to check it out. 240 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 1: It's in Washington, DC, and this exhibit, the Dead Sea Scrolls, 241 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: runs through September. Is that right? 242 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:11,439 Speaker 2: That is correct? 243 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: All right, Doctor Duke, thanks so much, Thank. 244 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 2: You so much, Michael, and again, welcome to you and 245 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:17,760 Speaker 2: anyone else who wants to come to the Dead Sea 246 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 2: Squirrells Exhibit. 247 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: Man, if you like today's episode, please subscribe and leave 248 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: a five star review. 249 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:26,959 Speaker 3: That's how we help more people just like you find 250 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 3: the show. A big thanks to the team at life 251 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,720 Speaker 3: Audio for their partnership with us on the podcast. 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