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Dead Sea Scrolls To Be Digitized
10:47AM ON
08/27/2008
BY
Eric Smith
From The Guardian: “Scientists and scholars in Jerusalem have begun a programme to take the first high-resolution, digital photographs of the Dead Sea Scrolls so they can be made available to the public on the internet. Written around 2,000 years ago, the scrolls contain the oldest written record of the Old Testament. They contain almost all the Old Testament books, often with more than one copy of each, as well as other religious material that came afterwards and writings from a religious sect dating to the time of Jesus. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, with some written on papyrus, both of which are extremely fragile and brittle and which age and darken over time.”
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