This is the longest the Israel Antiquities Authority has ever let the Commandments be displayed to the public.
The most complete ancient manuscript of the Commandments will be exhibited in New York for the first time starting December 16.
While the Commandments are only on view until January 2, the rest of the exhibition includes hundreds of artifacts and continues until April 15, 2012.
The Commandments are one of the scrolls, which were discovered by Bedouins in desert caves near the Dead Sea in the late 1940s and 1950s.
We as Catholics and Christians believe in the commandments of God.
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Another -- just this week in the Ten Commandments case -- she was the key vote in striking down the Ten Commandments display at the Kentucky courthouses.
However, since the decision was a denial of review, the ruling does not set a precedent and other disputes over the display of the commandments in schools are likely.
The text of the commandments was to have been displayed as part of an advertisement funded by a local businessman - with the slogan "Meditate on these principles to live by".
Much of our culture is based on the teachings of people who had visions: Moses (God gave him the commandments personally), Muhammad (the Archangel Gabriel spoke to him in a cave), St.
Previous winners of the Cecil B DeMille Award - named for the famed director of The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth - include Robert DeNiro, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino and Morgan Freeman, who was awarded the honour earlier this year.
Disputes over the extent to which Christianity should be part of the school day have roused strong feelings in some states - with prolonged rows over the displaying of the Ten Commandments, the teaching of the Creation story and the public saying of prayers before sports events.
And those contentious monuments to the Ten Commandments found around the country and occasionally challenged in court?
And the third case we're waiting for is about public displays of the Ten Commandments and whether those displays violate the First Amendment's protection against establishment of religion.
So if one atheist or attention-grabbing student in a public school is offended by a prayer, the Ten Commandments or a nativity scene on school property, liberals demand that the offending object must go.
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Last November, school authorities in Riverside County, California, backed down over plans to post the Ten Commandments in schools, after a civil rights organisation began legal action claiming that the display represented the promotion of religion by the government.
After the baby Moses is handed to Pharaoh's daughter, the adult Moses receives the Ten Commandments.
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The manuscript on display is one of two ancient, pre-Christian era examples of the complete commandments.
The Ten Commandments, half a dozen German hymns and a school prayer were also translated.
It would, she said, permit schools and public buildings to put up the ten commandments.
She led fights to defend the public display of the Ten Commandments and to ban same-sex marriage.
Catherine's, at the foot of the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
Heston found fame as an actor starring in such films as El Cid, Planet of the Apes and as Moses in The Ten Commandments.
The Ten Commandments cannot be put on display in school sports grounds, even if they are presented within an "advertisement", the Supreme Court in the United States has ruled.
Mr Vlahos was not the first to use a blue-screens - earlier versions of the technique can be seen in films including The Thief of Bagdad, and The Ten Commandments.
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This earlier series was made for Polish television in 1988, when the nation was still under martial law, and comprises ten hour-long films, each devoted to one of the Ten Commandments.
The US Supreme Court is nearing the end of the term, with key decisions still outstanding on public displays of the Ten Commandments, on property rights and on computer file sharing.
The court refused a call for a judicial review of a ban by a school district on the placing of the ten commandments on a fence at school baseball field in Downey, California.
For example, Mr Ariely finds that people are less likely to cheat if they read the Ten Commandments before doing a test, or if they have to sign a declaration of honesty before submitting their tax return.
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Their ranks include former star pitcher Orel Hershiser, the venerable TV host Art Linkletter, former U.S. Senator Zell Miller of Georgia and former Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore--the jurist who was removed for refusing to dismantle a courthouse monument to the Ten Commandments.
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