Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls digitised in co-project by Israel and Google
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.
IAA, the custodian of the scrolls that shed light on the life of Jews and early Christians at the time of Jesus, said it has collaborated with Google's research and development centre in Israel for the past two and a half years to upload digitised images of thousands of fragments from the collection.
Yossi Matias, the head of Google-Israel R&D centre, described the project launch as "exciting"....
Christopher000 wrote: By the way, so the Dead Sea scrolls only contain the OT? I thought it was the entire Bible.
They were written B.C. by some Jewish sect(s), possibly Essenes. Until they were discovered in the late 1940s, the oldest OT manuscripts were from the 10th century A.D.
I wish I could read Hebrew. I assumed that they might have the Hebrew translated to English with each fragment/scroll. Like the translation to English as a footnote or something.
Yes, Christopher000, and it shows that The Apocrypha. God, helped the Jews in preserving the Old Testament! The Dead Sea Scrolls are very interesting, it's too bad more people can't read Hebrew.
I'm looking forward to seeing and being able to investigate the actual images of the scrolls. What an incredible find these were. They verified almost the entire Bible as remaining unchanged through the years. I think entire scrolls and/or fragments were found for every book except, I think, Esther. I think the hand of God in keeping His living Word accurately preserved throughout thousands of years is nothing less than incredible. Especially when relying on the hands of the scribes to transcribe with accuracy.
This is a very good idea, though the article is quite wrong that the Muhammadans would be interested in it. They say the Jews corrupted the Old Testament, even though The Qur'an is a complete corruption of Scripture .
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