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Dead Sea Scrolls To Go Digital On Internet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the but-free-information-is-dangerous dept.

mernil writes to mention that the Dead Sea Scrolls are headed for the internet. The Israel Antiquities Authority, custodians of the scrolls, plan on digitizing the 900 fragments to make them available to the public via the internet. Unfortunately they are claiming the project will take somewhere in the neighborhood of two years to complete.

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  1. 2 years is too long by gregbot9000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they were smart they would have tied this release in with the Evangelion rebuild series.

    1. Re:2 years is too long by eln · · Score: 3, Funny

      Clearly if it's going to be 50% faster in a mere 492 years, our best bet is to wait until then to transcribe them rather than wasting our precious time now.

  2. Patience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    You've waited this long ... what's another two years?

    What we need is for Google to develop an actual, physical spider that goes out and searches hard copies of documents for indexing.

  3. Re:Edifying by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    I came across photograph copies in my College Library the other day

    Did you wipe them off and apologize to the librarian?

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  4. The abridged Dead Sea Scrolls by thermian · · Score: 4, Funny

    'The Romans are bad'
    'So are any Jews who don't do what we do'
    'We don't like women'
    'Why is is so hard to get a damn bath around here'

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