Apocrypha In Your Browser: Google Is Putting The Dead Sea Scrolls Online

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"In a matter of months, it will be possible to peruse the Dead Sea Scrolls from the comfort of your computer chair....The keepers of the scrolls, the Israel Antiquities Authority, announced Tuesday that as part of their 20th anniversary, they are launching this project to digitize all of the 30,000 fragments that make up the earliest known copy of the Hebrew Bible....This is the first time since the 1950s that the entire collection will be photographed....This will allow not only widespread access to the collection, but also minimize the need to expose the delicate 2,000-year-old parchment and papyrus to the harsh effects of light and air. Once the project is complete, researching the scrolls will be easier than ever. Google Israel and the IAA plan to include transcriptions, translations and a bibliography with the images so you won’t have to be an expert, or even able to read Aramaic in order to decipher the scrolls...."

Link:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-10/google-and-israel-team-digitize-dead-sea-scrolls

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Tags:

oa.new oa.digitization oa.history oa.religion oa.humanities oa.ssh

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 15:40

Date published:

10/30/2010, 15:23