Dead Sea Scrolls are now online

free man · Sep 27, 2011

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves, written in Hebrew more than 2000 years ago are now available online thanks to Google and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea from which it derives its name, in the British Mandate for Palestine, in what is now named the West Bank.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus.[1] These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE and 70 CE.[2] The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.

DutchClogCyborg · Sep 27, 2011

Cool to see, unlike other people living in that area the Jews have quite some history in the region.

KSigMason · Sep 27, 2011

Thanks for the link.

moon · Sep 27, 2011

Jordan alleges that the scrolls were stolen from the Rockefeller Museum, which was operated by Jordan from 1966 until the Six-Day War. After the war Israel moved the scrolls to the Shrine of the Book in the Israel Museum. Jordan regularly demands their return and petitions third-party countries that host the scrolls to return them to Jordan instead of to Israel.[15][16][17] When the scrolls arrived for a 2009 exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the Palestinian Authority and Canadian pro-Palestinian activists called on the Canadian government to cancel the showing and seize the scrolls under disputed international law. Ottawa dismissed the demands and the exhibit was enormously successful, with the scrolls returning to Israel upon its conclusion. Jordan has also asked the UN to intervene.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
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No matter the area of discussion, whenever Israel is mentioned , the topic of theft is never far behind.

DutchClogCyborg · Sep 28, 2011

Jordan alleges a lot no need to take the ramblings of them serious. not to mention they could have stayed out of the war if they were not hostile and aggressive by nature

DBM aka FDS · Sep 28, 2011

That is VERY INTERESTING!!!

I did read this on the news, but really didn't understand what it was I was reading, so I just skimmed over it...

KSigMason · Sep 30, 2011

moon said: ↑

No matter the area of discussion, whenever Israel is mentioned , the topic of theft is never far behind.
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No matter what, you tie you anti-Israel obsession into everything. It's all very broken record.

waltky · Feb 6, 2014

Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) has launched an updated version of its digital library of the Dead Sea scrolls...

Dead Sea scrolls revived on Web
Thu, Feb 06, 2014 - HISTORY PLUS TECHNOLOGY: A Web site includes 10,000 new images created using technology created for NASA, more translations and a faster search engine

In an extraordinary marriage between high-tech wizardry and ancient history, the Israel Antiques Authority (IAA) has launched an updated version of its digital library of the Dead Sea scrolls, showcasing thousands of high-quality photographs of one of the worlds most spectacular archeological finds. The expanded online resource, which is accessible from personal computers and mobile phones, presents hundreds of scroll fragments imaged with a camera that was developed specifically for this purpose.

Only five expert curators worldwide are authorized to physically handle the scrolls. Among the scrolls is an early copy of the book of Deuteronomy, which includes the 10 Commandments. The first of the scrolls were discovered in a remote cave at Qumran in the West Bank close to the Dead Sea in 1947.

SHRINE OF THE BOOK

Housed in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in a dedicated facility called the Shrine of the Book, the scrolls include part of the first chapter of the book of Genesis, dated to the first century BC, which describes the creation of the world; a number of copies of Psalms scrolls; tiny texts from the second temple period; letters and documents hidden by those fleeing Roman forces during the Bar Kochba revolt; and hundreds more ancient texts that shed light on biblical studies, the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity.

The upgraded Web site includes 10,000 new multispectral images, extra manuscript descriptions, content translated into Russian and German in addition to the current languages, a faster search engine, and easy access from the site to the Facebook page and to Twitter and more, the IAA said. The novelty is the quality of the pictures through a system that was created especially for the scrolls, said Pnina Shor, curator and head of the Dead Sea Scrolls Project at the IAA.

LIVING SITE

These are the best possible images of thousands of fragments. They are exactly like the originals. The technology was invented for NASA. It is a living site and a uniquely comprehensive one for documents this old, Shor said.
By the early 1960s Bedouin treasure hunters and archeologists had found the remains of hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments in the Judean desert along the western shore of the Dead Sea. These fragile pieces of parchment and papyrus were preserved for two millennia by the hot, dry climate and the darkness of the caves.

The texts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Nabataean. The manuscripts have been dated to various periods between 408 BC and 318 AD. The scrolls provide an unprecedented picture of the diverse religious beliefs of ancient Judaism, and of daily life during the turbulent Second Temple period when Jesus lived and preached, on biblical studies, the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity, the Web site says.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/02/06/2003582879
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Face. Your · Feb 6, 2014

moon said: ↑

No matter the area of discussion, whenever Israel is mentioned , the topic of theft is never far behind.
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How can the Jews steal something they created?

J0NAH · Feb 6, 2014

DutchClogCyborg said: ↑

Cool to see, unlike other people living in that area the Jews have quite some history in the region.
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If you believe the Israelis are descended from Biblical Israelites then its also fair to assume the Palestinians are descended from the Ancient Egyptians. Not my idea of truth but hey, truth is not the issue here is it.

Durandal · Feb 6, 2014

free man said: ↑

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves, written in Hebrew more than 2000 years ago are now available online thanks to Google and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea from which it derives its name, in the British Mandate for Palestine, in what is now named the West Bank.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus.[1] These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE and 70 CE.[2] The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.
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Cheers. This is one thing digital technology and the internet are freaking awesome for, making otherwise rare and hard to access materials freely and easily accessible to the entire world. Love it, love it, love it.

FreshAir · Feb 6, 2014

free man said: ↑

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves, written in Hebrew more than 2000 years ago are now available online thanks to Google and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea from which it derives its name, in the British Mandate for Palestine, in what is now named the West Bank.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus.[1] These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE and 70 CE.[2] The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.
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good to get copies on the internet for everyone to see

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Face said: ↑

How can the Jews steal something they created?
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was thinking the same thing... course ask OJ I suppose

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DrewBedson · Feb 6, 2014

moon said: ↑

No matter the area of discussion, whenever Israel is mentioned , the topic of theft is never far behind.
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Or whining Arabs moaning about something that never belonged to them being taken by the big bad joos.

waltky · Feb 9, 2017

New Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in cave in Judean desert...

New Dead Sea Scrolls cave discovered
Thu, 09 Feb 2017 - It is the first such discovery in decades of a cave which housed the famous relics.

Archaeologists have found a cave that once housed Dead Sea scrolls in a cliff in the Judean desert - the first such discovery in over 60 years. Israel's Hebrew University said the ancient parchments were missing from the cave, and were probably looted by Bedouin people in the 1950s. Storage jars, fragments of a scroll wrapping, and a leather tying string were found at the site. The Dead Sea scrolls date from as early as the 4th Century BC. The priceless records include more than 800 documents written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on animal skin and papyrus. As well as containing the oldest copies of many biblical texts, they also include many secular writings about life in the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD.

Excavators filter material from the cave

The first Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in 1947, reportedly by a young Bedouin shepherd hunting for a lost sheep in Qumran, on the modern-day West Bank. It is not known who wrote the scrolls, although some scholars have credited a Jewish sect called the Essenes. The team excavating the latest cave was led by Dr Oren Gutfeld and Ahiad Ovadia from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with Dr Randall Price and students from Liberty University in Virginia.

The team found fragments of pottery jars that contained the stolen scrolls

The pottery jars and wrappings were found concealed in niches along the cave's walls, and inside a 4-6m (16-20ft) tunnel at its rear. "Until now, it was accepted that Dead Sea Scrolls were found only in 11 caves at Qumran, but now there is no doubt that this is the 12th cave," said Dr Gutfeld. "Although at the end of the day no scroll was found, and instead we "only" found a piece of parchment rolled up in a jug that was being processed for writing, the findings indicate beyond any doubt that the cave contained scrolls that were stolen," he said. "The findings include the jars in which the scrolls and their covering were hidden, a leather strap for binding the scroll, a cloth that wrapped the scrolls, tendons and pieces of skin connecting fragments, and more."

This tiny carnelian seal is evidence that the cave was once inhabited

The team also found a seal made from carnelian, a semi-precious stone - evidence that prehistoric people once lived in the desert cave. The Bedouin looting theory arose with the discovery of two iron pickaxe heads from the mid-20th Century that had been left inside the cave tunnel. "I imagine they came into the tunnel. They found the scroll jars. They took the scrolls," Dr Gutfeld said. "They even opened the scrolls and left everything around, the textiles, the pottery." He said this could be just the first in a series of discoveries, with hundreds of caves yet to be explored.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38916687
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Capitalism · Feb 9, 2017

KSigMason said: ↑

No matter what, you tie you anti-Israel obsession into everything. It's all very broken record.
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The left wing developed the anti-Semitism of the Nazi's, and the work ethic of a communist.

Margot2 · Feb 9, 2017

DutchClogCyborg said: ↑

Jordan alleges a lot no need to take the ramblings of them serious. not to mention they could have stayed out of the war if they were not hostile and aggressive by nature
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You do know that ancient Jordan was never Jewish.

Merwen · Feb 9, 2017

free man said: ↑

The Dead Sea Scrolls, found in caves, written in Hebrew more than 2000 years ago are now available online thanks to Google and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea from which it derives its name, in the British Mandate for Palestine, in what is now named the West Bank.

The texts are of great religious and historical significance, as they include the oldest known surviving copies of Biblical and extra-biblical documents and preserve evidence of great diversity in late Second Temple Judaism. They are written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, mostly on parchment, but with some written on papyrus.[1] These manuscripts generally date between 150 BCE and 70 CE.[2] The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.
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Thanks--I've been waiting years for this!

Thehumankind · Feb 9, 2017

The timing of their discovery in 1947-1948 was incredibly fortuitous for the nascent Jewish state insistent on proving its connection with an historical Jewish presence in the land. Here was physical proof-positive, which one could touch, of Jews living in Judea and composing Hebrew texts more than 2,000 years ago.

But the Palestinian view-which is rejected out of hand by the IAA - is strikingly different, and emphasizes the fact that the scrolls were found in the West Bank, in territory that they regard as part of a future Palestinian state. "The Dead Sea Scrolls are part of the Palestinian cultural heritage and should by right be returned to the Palestinians," says Nazmi Al Jubeh, Director of the Riwaq Center for Architectural and Archaeological Conservation in Ramallah. "There is a general principle that archaeological artifacts belong to the place in which they were discovered, and if removed must be repatriated. This holds true of the scrolls, which were found on Palestinian territory in Qumran, and were taken by Israeli occupation authorities from the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem."

Jubeh readily concedes that the Dead Sea Scrolls are Jewish documents, but contends that "the historical Jewish community is part of the Palestinian heritage and history, just as ancient Roman and Byzantine ruins comprise part of our history".

"No one would claim that Roman ruins found in Israel should be sent to Rome," Jubeh tells The Report. "They are properly displayed where they were found. History is accumulated layer upon layer, and the ancient Jewish history here is part of my identity, among the other layers."

Does that mean that if the first set of tablets of the Ten Commandments of Moses were to be discovered on Mount Sinai, they would be Egyptian relics? "Yes, exactly," says Jubeh. "Just like a mummy found in Beit Shean from a period of Egyptian rule there would be Israeli."

In response, Yoli Shwartz, spokesperson for the IAA, told The Report that the IAA categorically rejects any demand that the State of Israel part with the Dead Sea Scrolls. "From the perspective of international law, there is no requirement that antiquities found in the West Bank or Gaza Strip be given to the Palestinian Authority," says Shwartz. "The scrolls are a national Jewish treasure of enormous importance to the Jewish heritage, as well as being of world-wide importance. They are available to be studied by researchers of any nationality, but they will not be removed from the responsibility or ownership of the State of Israel, to anyone."
http://archaeologynewsreport.blogspot.de/2008/09/are-dead-sea-scrolls-palestinian.html
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I think that the Balfour declaration is quite rightful after all.

bretzter · Feb 10, 2017

Hebrews,but where did this word "Jews" originate from?
I suggest that we open the history books.

Margot2 · Feb 10, 2017

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Hebrews,but where did this word "Jews" originate from?
I suggest that we open the history books.
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Jews didn't control the Decapolis or Samaria.. or Philistia or Phoenicia..

bretzter · Feb 11, 2017

Very true Margot2,but it still doesn´t answer my
question as to where the reference "Jews" originated?
Jews,first called Jews as God only chose 2 groups from
the original 12 sons of Jacob/tribes.
One being the tribe of Judah,and the other being Benjamin.
Jacob´s youngest son.
Now King David is known to be of the tribe of Judah,
Born in Bethlehem,but later resided in Israel´s original capital
which is Jerusalem.
Therefore the reference to their being called Jews.
Before this,in Abraham,Moses,Isaac,Jacob´s etc. day,they
were simply referred to as their being Hebrews.

Margot2 · Feb 11, 2017

bretzter said: ↑

Very true Margot2,but it still doesn´t answer my
question as to where the reference "Jews" originated?
Jews,first called Jews as God only chose 2 groups from
the original 12 sons of Jacob/tribes.
One being the tribe of Judah,and the other being Benjamin.
Jacob´s youngest son.
Now King David is known to be of the tribe of Judah,
Born in Bethlehem,but later resided in Israel´s original capital
which is Jerusalem.
Therefore the reference to their being called Jews.
Before this,in Abraham,Moses,Isaac,Jacob´s etc. day,they
were simply referred to as their being Hebrews.
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Are you trying to give me a quiz?

Judah or the Roman "Judea".

Gilos · Feb 12, 2017

bretzter said: ↑

Hebrews,but where did this word "Jews" originate from?
I suggest that we open the history books.
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Hebrews is the name of the ancient nation that crossed the red sea, all 12 tribes. "Jews" is an English word but I assume its a translation for "Yehudi" in Hebrew which means "Judean" - from Judea of the Judian tribe, the tribe of Judah along with remnants of other tribes from Israel are the last of recorded Hebrews.

PoliticalHound · Feb 12, 2017

Google? Why?

The dead sea scrolls have been studied by many scholars, scientists, intelligent people over many years. There are many papers published, documentaries, etc... over decades.

But this is all ignored to put it on google?

But do the google generations care? It has no video links, no music. Add a backing track, maybe some vocals.

[video=youtube;yk-mkyEcWdE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk-mkyEcWdE[/video]

Ronstar · May 14, 2017

Margot2 said: ↑

Jews didn't control the Decapolis or Samaria.. or Philistia or Phoenicia..
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more lies, the Jews controlled Samaria and Philistia.

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