p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Of great religious and historical significance, the Dead Sea Scrolls comprise 1,000 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1979 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran, says the Wikipedia.

They include, “practically the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before 100 AD, and preserve evidence of considerable diversity of belief and practice within late Second Temple Judaism,” it states.

Now each of the “thousands of fragments” will soon be available to everyone online, says the New York Times.

Digitizing them all will probably take one to two years, and even then they won’t all be available online, it says, pointing out the project is led by Greg Bearman, late of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

It’s long been, “very difficult for senior scholars to get access,” says the story, quoting Jonathan Ben-Dov, a professor of biblical studies at the University of Haifa.

But once the project is finished, “every undergraduate will be able to have a detailed look at them from numerous angles,” he says.

New York Times - Israel to Display the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet, August 26, 2008

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