Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online
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Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online
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#2no spoilers for those of us that haven't read them.
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#3Created in partnership with Google:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-br...
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#4The DSS have been online for a while now, and this is only a few of the scrolls. However, it is very nicely done, and clearly the best online edition of these particular scrolls.
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#5Other online Bible manuscript projects I'm aware of:
http://www.aleppocodex.org/ - complete Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), dating from about 930 AD
http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/ - Greek Bible (includes complete New Testament)
http://www.greek-language.com/Manuscripts.html - links to a ton of Greek Bible manuscripts
It's unfortunate there isn't a better clearinghouse for this. There's a tremendous wealth of data out there.
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#6Does this make seeing the real dead sea scrolls more or less impressive I wonder?
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#7Other online Bible manuscript projects I'm aware of: http://www.aleppocodex.org/ - complete Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), dating from about 930 AD http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/ - Greek Bible (includes complete New Testament) http://www.greek-language.com/Manuscripts.html - links to a ton of Greek Bible manuscripts It's unfortunate there isn't a better clearinghouse for this. There's a tremendous wealth of data out t…
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html - The Nag Hammadi Codex. Gnostic scriptures, some of which are of the Gnostic Christian varieties that were circulating around the time of Jesus and after. These offer a fascinating counterpoint to the officialized, hierarchical Christian dogma the ideas of the time were honed into.
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#8It 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 Wikipedia crowd are (rightly) griping about this; we've long held that faithful digital reproductions of 2D copyrighted work simply inherit the copyright of the original. It's sad to see such a nice thing marred by a silly approach to copyright.
As if they are scared people are going to, what, misuse the material and make a fortune out of it?
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#9It’s about time.
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#10Other online Bible manuscript projects I'm aware of: http://www.aleppocodex.org/ - complete Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), dating from about 930 AD http://codexsinaiticus.org/en/ - Greek Bible (includes complete New Testament) http://www.greek-language.com/Manuscripts.html - links to a ton of Greek Bible manuscripts It's unfortunate there isn't a better clearinghouse for this. There's a tremendous wealth of data out t…
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html - The Nag Hammadi Codex. Gnostic scriptures, some of which are of the Gnostic Christian varieties that were circulating around the time of Jesus and after. These offer a fascinating counterpoint to the officialized, hierarchical Christian dogma the ideas of the time were honed into.
Gnostic and other "non-canonical" writings are also of interest. www.earlychristianwritings.com/ is another quite fascinating source, with lots of letters and such. (Neither site seems to have manuscript scans, unfortunately.)
I would love to see a good source on the "circulating around the time of Jesus" claim. I've never been able to track down anything credible on that front.
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/Pagels-Gnostic-Gospels.html notes the existing manuscripts date to 350-400, that "some" must date to somewhat prior to 180 AD because Irenaeus speaks of "other gospels", and cites a Harvard professor who speculates that the Gospel of Thomas "may include some traditions even older" than the official gospels. Those are fairly weak claims; do you have support for your stronger claim?