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Google has digitized the Dead Sea manuscripts. Within three days of the material going up online, the museum site dedicated to the famous scrolls from Qumran had received one million visitors. The digitized manuscripts drew viewers from 210 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
The objective of the Paris-based Google Cultural Institute is to make accessible to every Internet user documents from museums, archives, universities, and collections throughout the world.
See the site at http://dss.collections.imj.org.il
Entrance to the Visitor's Center at Qumran - Israel
Sign marking the caves where the scrolls were found
The cave where the scrolls were found
The first of the scrolls were found in this cave in 1947 by a pair of Bedouin boys. One of the lads was throwing rocks into the cave for sport, and he heard a crash. Upon investigating, he found jars filled with ancient parchments.
Chalk one up for the benefits of boyish restlessness and curiosity.
For the record, the scrolls -- untouched in their caves for about 2,000 years -- do a marvelous job of reinforcing just how wonderfully scribes and scriveners and copyists reproduced the texts of the Scriptures through the centuries.
Photos from my Holy Land pilgrimage in Lent of 2008
The first of the scrolls were found in this cave in 1947 by a pair of Bedouin boys. One of the lads was throwing rocks into the cave for sport, and he heard a crash. Upon investigating, he found jars filled with ancient parchments.
Chalk one up for the benefits of boyish restlessness and curiosity.
For the record, the scrolls -- untouched in their caves for about 2,000 years -- do a marvelous job of reinforcing just how wonderfully scribes and scriveners and copyists reproduced the texts of the Scriptures through the centuries.
Photos from my Holy Land pilgrimage in Lent of 2008
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2 comments:
Hey Sean, this is really interesting. Thanks so much for posting it.
Maria
Sean, thanks for your ever vigilant nose for good news
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