The Dead Sea Scrolls

EXHIBITION REVIEW | 'THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS'
Peering Into the Mystery of Those Enigmatic Fragments

Go, finally, because there is something rarely felt in exhibitions, and which the critic Walter Benjamin argued was heading toward extinction. In the 1930s he suggested that art objects were now so easily reproduced that they were being stripped of their “aura.” Aura, he suggested, is connected with uniqueness, but it also involves a sense of distance. An object possessing aura stands at a distance from us, no matter how near we get to it.

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