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Google, Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online

Sep 10 Blog

Dead Sea Scrolls Online: IAA Expands Digital Library

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

The Israel Antiquities Authority launched the updated Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, a website that allows visitors to view and search high-resolution images of the complete Dead Sea Scrolls archive online.

Where Were the Dead Sea Scrolls Found and Who Put Them There?

Jan 4 Blog

Where Were the Dead Sea Scrolls Found and Who Put Them There?

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

For nearly 2,000 years, the Qumran caves protected the secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Might the same caves also shed light on the mystery of who deposited the scrolls there in the first place?

Jewish-Iraqi-manuscripts

May 19 Blog

Digital Humanities: How Everyone Can Get a Library Card to the World’s Most Exclusive Collections Online

By: Diane H. Cline

What would happen if the Pope’s library were accidentally burnt? Or what if the Dead Sea Scrolls were damaged in some way? Learn how an emerging field of study is helping to preserve and analyze these artifacts—and how you can help.

Jun 7 Blog

The Curse of Ham—A New Reading in the Dead Sea Scrolls

By: Noah Wiener

The harshness of the curse of Ham, his son Canaan and their descendants has been a source of scholarly debate for millennia. A new reading of the Dead Sea Scroll 4Q180-4Q181* provides a fresh perspective on Canaan’s transgression.

May 20 Blog

Geza Vermes (1924–2013)

By: Hershel Shanks

My friend Geza Vermes is dead. He was, most famously, the intellectual leader in the fight to free the Dead Sea Scrolls from the small coterie of scholars who was assigned to publish them but who endlessly procrastinated and wouldn’t let anyone else see them in the meantime.

May 11 Blog

Fifty Years of Dead Sea Scroll Translation

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Fifty years have passed since a young scholar named Geza Vermes published the first Dead Sea Scrolls translation of the texts available at the time. The seventh edition of the book, now titled The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English, includes every sufficiently preserved and available Qumran text.

Jun 16 Blog

Caves and Contents (Cave 11)

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Jun 16 Blog

Caves and Contents (Cave 10)

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Jun 16 Blog

Caves and Contents (Cave 9)

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

Jun 16 Blog

Caves and Contents (Cave 8)

By: Biblical Archaeology Society Staff

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