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Ancient fragment of Book of Lamentations put on display
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A 2,000-year-old scroll of the Book of Lamentations, a biblical tale of sorrow and mourning for Jerusalem traditionally read on Tisha B’Av, has been put in display in the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem.
On Sunday, the day Jews mark the loss of the two ancient Holy Temples with fasting and mourning, the scroll was brought to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a private viewing.
The scroll was discovered in Qumran as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls and was written between 30 and 70 CE, making it the oldest remnant of the biblical passage known, according to Israel Antiquities Authority Dead Sea scholar Pnina Shor.
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