World’s tiniest bible to be presented at Israel Museum for 50th anniversary

Logo of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As part of its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, the Jerusalem-based Israel Museum will display the “Nano Bible,” the world’s smallest bible, an Israeli innovation created at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

The tiny bible will be displayed alongside the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Aleppo Codex, a manuscript of the Jewish bible from 10th century C.E. The Nano Bible is a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead. It is 0.04 square millimeters, and 0.00002 millimeters (20 nanometers) deep. The 1.2 million letters of the bible were written using a focused ion beam generator that shot gallium ions onto a gold surface covering a base layer of silicon.

Dr. Ohad Zohar and Professor Uri Sivan of the Technion Physics Department developed the idea, and the engineers of the Technion’s Sara and Moshe Zisapel Nanoelectronics Center were responsible for the manufacturing of the chip and the development of the software that allows the engraving of the letters.

The Israel Museum will also exhibit a documentary on the creation of the Nano Bible and will enable the reading of the biblical text under a microscope.

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Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity

In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd discovered seven scrolls in a cave overlooking the northwest end of the Dead Sea. A further search found additional scrolls in eleven caves. In total there were more than 800 documents discovered.The scrolls found where more than a thousand years older than the oldest copies of scripture known to exist in the 1940ies.

English: Jordan, Amman, Dead Sea Scroll 1Q28 Deutsch: Jordanien, Amman, Schriftrolle vom Toten Meer 1Q28 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Many theories have developed about the whereabouts and by whom written.There are even experts who believe the same people who wrote/transcribed many of the dead sea scrolls also wrote/transcribed documents discovered at Masada.

Adolfo Roitman, curator of the Shrine of the Book, which houses the Dead Sea Scroll collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, will discuss “The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls for Judaism and Christianity” at Kent State University at 7 p.m. on Thursday in the Kent Student Center Kiva.

The lecture is presented by Kent State’s Jewish Studies program, with support from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy.  A dessert reception will follow the lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Chyla Kessler at ckessle7@kent.edu or David Odell-Scott at dodellsc@kent.edu

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