Jerusalem – Google to Bring Dead Sea Scrolls Online

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    Yossi Matias, the director of Google R&D Center in Israel, holds up a reproduction of the Pslams Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls collection during a press conference where Google announced a partnership with the Israeli Antiquities Authority to photograph and document and present on-line the entire collection of Dead Sea Scrolls, considered the world's oldest known writings, dating some 2,000 years ago and written in Hebrew, in the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, 19 October 2010. The entire collection of some 900 manuscripts and 30,000 fragments will be photographed in hi-resolution and multi spectra and the digitalized images will be posted on the Internet and made available to anyone. It is expected to be at least three months until anything is posted on the web.  EPA/JIM HOLLANDERJerusalem – Israel’s Antiquities Authority is partnering with Google to bring the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls online.

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    The project will grant free access to the 2,000-year-old text — considered one of the greatest archaeological finds of the last century — by uploading high-resolution images. The first photographs are slated to be online within months.

    The scrolls will be available in both original languages and in translation.

    Antiquities official Pnina Shor said Tuesday this will ensure the originals are preserved while broadening access to the priceless artifact, which includes fragments of the Hebrew Bible.

    Experts have complained only a small number of scholars were allowed access to the scrolls found in caves near the Dead Sea in the 1940s.

    A worker of the IAA, Israel Antiquities Authority, points at a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls in a laboratory in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Israel's Antiquities Authority and Google announced Tuesday they are joining forces to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls online, allowing both scholars and the general public widespread access to the ancient manuscripts for the first time. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)


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    13 years ago

    Enough with these stupid schrolls, we have tanach and shas that details our history just fine.

    GB_Jew
    GB_Jew
    13 years ago

    Kol hakavod to the Israel Museum, the Israel Department of Antiquities and Google! This is a wonderful idea.

    Anything that brings about a greater recognition of the Jewish morasha among the goyim is to be commended and encouraged.

    oygevault
    oygevault
    13 years ago

    amazing!

    BinderDundat
    BinderDundat
    13 years ago

    #1 , here’s a dollar, buy a clue.

    13 years ago

    The Scrolls have Sefer Tehillim consisting of Six Seforim. Our version only has five. They say that the sixth Sefer has exactly the same dialect as the first five.
    But the question will always remain, why does Tehillm include Al Na’haros Bovel which was composed while going to exile to Bovel.

    13 years ago

    When the scrolls were in Toronto last year, I was fortunate to see them. It is incredible to believe that you are looking at something so ancient. I actually got chills when I saw Breisheit. I was amazed at the mixture of people attending the exhibit – from all over the world – I heard so many different languages being spoken. These scrolls are not just important to the Jewish people but to Christians and Muslims, as well.

    13 years ago

    Any idea when this is going to be available?

    bigwheeel
    bigwheeel
    13 years ago

    Poster # 3 (Just Thinking); I’m pretty certain that poster # 1 is being sarcastic. It’s very hard to believe anyone should be so clueless (dumb, in plain English.) about the value of the Dead Sea Scrolls in terms of History and insight into the life of that era.

    enlightened-yid
    enlightened-yid
    13 years ago

    Why did it take so long for such a project? This should have been done when scanners and internet was invented. I hope they include translations and academic commentaries from the world’s leading archeologists on the scrolls.