Israel's Shrine of the Book is Designed to Symbolize "The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness"

In 1965 the wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem called the Shrine of the Book was completed to house the Dead Sea Scrolls. The shrine was built as a white dome, covering a structure placed two-thirds below the ground, and reflected in a pool of water surrounding it. Across from the white dome is a black basalt wall. According to one interpretation of the design, the colors and shapes of the building are based on the imagery of the scroll of the War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness; the white dome symbolizes the Sons of Light and the black wall symbolizes the Sons of Darkness.