Clever implementation. Pay attention when browsing the Isaiah scroll to how the rolled up ends of the scroll change in size as you scroll it left to right.
Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online
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#22I hope this will be a model for all archaeological literature. It’s a real shame how controlling scholars sit on caches of the world’s cultural heritage not for years, not for decades, but for generations (in the case of the Oxyrhynchus papyri), dolling it out to the public only as they reconstruct and interpret the fragments. If humanities scholars aim to rise to the level of the hard sciences, let them emulate XArchive.
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#23It confuses me somewhat how they can claim copyright over documents that are thousands of years old :S http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/terms_pg Copyright in the digital images of the manuscripts, created by the Israel Museum and displayed on this site, is held by the Israel Museum. Reproducing these digital images in any manner other than for research or private study requires prior permission or licensing. The Wik…
Even more outrageous considering Israel stole the scrolls from Jordan after the 1967 war.
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#24as an aside, for a great book discussing the evolution of the current bible, you should read Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehram
*Ehrman
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#25It confuses me somewhat how they can claim copyright over documents that are thousands of years old :S http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/terms_pg Copyright in the digital images of the manuscripts, created by the Israel Museum and displayed on this site, is held by the Israel Museum. Reproducing these digital images in any manner other than for research or private study requires prior permission or licensing. The Wik…
It's how copyright works unfortunately :( The creator of the content/picture own that picture unless they state it otherwise. Considering the nature of the document, it should be considered of public domain due to the broad public interest the document has.
There was a case time ago, where apes, monkeys or gorillas (not sure) "stole" a camera a took pictures of themselves - now you have a copyright by a thousand monkeys...
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#26as an aside, for a great book discussing the evolution of the current bible, you should read Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehram
Ehrman's book mixes fact with a great deal of speculation. I would not recommend it as a starting place.
For a more factual treatment, I'd recommend starting with the wikipedia article on "textual criticism" (the process of reconstructing documents from imperfect copies). Its section on the New Testament has a list of the major textual problems, most of which have their own wikipedia articles.
If you want to get into books, David Alan Black wrote a fairly nice introduction to New Testament textual criticism. Bruce Metzger and Kurt Aland's books are both pretty widely respected as well. If you want to see the changes passage-by-passage during study, consider using the NET Bible (net.bible.org) and watching for notes marked "tc".
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#27I hope this will be a model for all archaeological literature. It’s a real shame how controlling scholars sit on caches of the world’s cultural heritage not for years, not for decades, but for generations (in the case of the Oxyrhynchus papyri), dolling it out to the public only as they reconstruct and interpret the fragments. If humanities scholars aim to rise to the level of the hard sciences, let them emulate XArc…
I should have called it literature archaeology.
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#28It confuses me somewhat how they can claim copyright over documents that are thousands of years old :S http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/terms_pg Copyright in the digital images of the manuscripts, created by the Israel Museum and displayed on this site, is held by the Israel Museum. Reproducing these digital images in any manner other than for research or private study requires prior permission or licensing. The Wik…
Even more outrageous considering Israel stole the scrolls from Jordan after the 1967 war.
They claim that, but they are wrong:
"They were purchased by Prof. Mazar, Yigael Yadin ... and brought to Jerusalem, where they were on display at the Rockefeller Museum."
"Jordan alleges that the scrolls were stolen from the Rockefeller Museum..."
"The museum was run by an international board of trustees until 1966, when it was nationalized [read: Stolen] by King Hussein of Jordan."
And in any case they were owned by Prof. Mazar and Yigael Yadin, not Jordan.
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#29OK, I'm no Google fan (far from it), but this is pretty goddamn cool.
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#30What's interesting to study is the difference between the dead sea scrolls and the "current" or canonical version of the old testament. See more on http://www.bibleandscience.com/archaeology/dss.htm and http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/1st/papers/Anderson9...
Think that Judaism, Christianism and Islamism, and a big part of world culture are based or influenced on that.