Monday, September 26, 2011

The Dead Sea Scrolls are now online (The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Google)

Read the full story: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-bringing-dead-sea.html
The Dead Sea Scrolls are online at: http://dss.collections.imj.org.il
Great Isaiah Scroll Temple Scroll   War Scroll  Community Rule Scroll  Commentary on the Habakkuk Scroll
video source: http://youtu.be/5rYj_0foJYA

You can browse the Great Isaiah Scroll, the most well known scroll and the one that can be found in most home bibles, by chapter and verse.  You can also click directly on the Hebrew text and get an English translation.  
The scroll text is also discoverable via web search.  If you search for phrases from the scrolls, a link to that text within the scroll viewers on the Dead Sea Scrolls collections site may surface in your search results.  For example, search for [Dead Sea Scrolls "In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow"], and you may see a link to Chapter 17:Verse 11 within the Great Isaiah Scroll.


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