Israel puts Dead Sea Scrolls online

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/dead-sea-scrolls-online

Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the Dead Sea Scrolls have gone online for the first time in a project launched by Israel's national museum and Google.

The appearance of five of the most important scrolls on the internet is part of a broader attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts – who were once criticised for allowing them to be monopolised by a few scholars – to make them available to all.

The scrolls include the biblical Book of Isaiah, the manuscript known as the Temple Scroll, and three others.

Web users can search high-resolution images of the scrolls for specific passages, zoom in and translate verses into English.

[RevStPatrick]

1. Very cool!

Here's the link directly to the scrolls:

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

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2. ...

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[David Sky]

3. That IS very cool. Very cool, indeed.

The more historical documents available to people around the world, of any or no faith, the better!

Primary source documents are always the best way to study history.