Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Dead Sea scrolls now viewable online

This is interesting. Those of us who don't read the Hebrew Bible can read a translated version.

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Bruce

"(TELEGRAPH) — One of the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century is now available for all to see online after the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google digitised the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Anyone with an internet connection will now be able to take a new look into the Biblical past through an online archive of high-resolution images of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls completed by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Google.

The scrolls, most of them on parchment, are the oldest copies of the Hebrew Bible and include secular text dating from the third century BC to the first century AD."

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