Dead Sea Scrolls Which Are 2,000-Year-old Go Online
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Oct 25, 2024
Oct 25, 2024
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Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday in a project launched by Israel's national museum and the web giant Google.
The appearance of five of the most important Dead Sea scrolls on the Internet is part of a broader attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts — who were once criticized for allowing them to be monopolized by small circles of scholars — to make them available to anyone with a computer.
[ The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hebrew Bible</a> and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Qumran</a> on the northwest shore of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dead Sea</a> from which it derives its name, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">British Mandate For Palestine</a>, in what is now named the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">West Bank</a>. ]
The appearance of five of the most important Dead Sea scrolls on the Internet is part of a broader attempt by the custodians of the celebrated manuscripts — who were once criticized for allowing them to be monopolized by small circles of scholars — to make them available to anyone with a computer.
[ The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hebrew Bible</a> and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Qumran</a> on the northwest shore of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dead Sea</a> from which it derives its name, in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">British Mandate For Palestine</a>, in what is now named the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">West Bank</a>. ]