BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: There is an exhibit touring the country of antiquities from Israel, some of them almost 4,000 years old. It's called From Abraham to Jesus, and its organizers call it the largest ever touring collection of sacred text and artifacts. There is a piece of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a bone box from early Christian years, plus some recently created sculptures to set the other things off. We visited the show in Atlanta.

Dr. RUSTY MAISEL (Curator, From Abraham to Jesus): The artifacts in this exhibit are some of the finest artifacts from the collection of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and they represent the times and places of Bible stories. Some of the oldest pieces in the exhibit date to the time of the patriarchs -- Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, 2,500 to 3,000 B.C. And, you know, most of it has never left the Holy Land before.

ELIAV NAHLIELI (Exhibit Designer, From Abraham to Jesus): The idea was to try and find the thread to connect the artifacts and actually to build a story, a full story starting from Abraham going all the way through history to Jesus. As a kid, I remember looking through the illustrations of the Bible made by Gustave Dore. And here we have, just in front of us, a sample that actually correlates three-dimensional sculpturing of figures together with the work of Dore: Moses going down the mountain of Sinai with the Ten Commandments in his hands and the people around him just sort of waiting, expecting him to come down.

And actually this kind of relationship between the three-dimensional sculptures and the work of Dore printed on semi-transparent gauzes so it's not the solid kind of panel in front of you, but you can see through -- that's exactly life. And that's exactly the kind of language that you are trying to create here using those four elements, meaning the artifacts, the explanations, the text panels, the Dore on semi-transparent gauze, and the sculptures and the scenery.