Dead Sea Scrolls To Be Made Available Online

[Unnamed]

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/1 ... ne/?hpt=C1

In an ambitious application of 21st century technology to a first century wonder, the Israel Antiquities Authority and internet search giant Google announced a plan Tuesday to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make the entire collection available to the public online.

The authority's general director, Shuka Dorfman, called the project a milestone that will enhance the field of biblical studies and people's understanding of Judaism and early Christianity.

"We have succeeded in recruiting the best minds and technological means to preserve this unrivaled cultural heritage treasure, which belongs to all of us, so that the public with a click of the mouse will be able to access history in its fullest glamour"

I wonder how heavily they'll be edited.

[Zenas]

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My thoughts exactly.

[wmfinck]

I wonder about how many new sects are going to arise from people who really do not understand what they are looking at! It will help me only to verify some things that I already have in books. Oh, and there is nothing Christian in the DSS, by the way.

[Les]

Ever since the late 1980s or early 1990s when I learned that the Dead Sea Scrolls were being held and everybody was denied access to examine them or get copies/photos to translate them on their own, I have had the feeling that the most important / revealing pieces of history would never be given out, ever.

Has not the Roman catholic church done the same in the past, and hidden/ destroyed books & papers ? They can't be the only ones to suppress truth.

EDIT:
THOUGH, it seems wikipedia NOW states the opposite to what I remember reading!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
". In 1991...
Officials at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, lead by Head Librarian William Andrew Moffett announced that they would allow researchers unrestricted access to the library’s complete set of photographs of the scrolls. With their monopoly broken, the officials of the Israel Antiquities Authority agreed to lift their long-standing restrictions on the use of the scrolls.[34]

[wmfinck]

I would not doubt if data was removed from the Dead Sea Scrolls. It seems that a lot of pericopes of Scripture, in addition to the obvious ones such as Genesis 4:1, which I have wanted to investigate over the years are indeed wanting in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

John Strugnell, a Catholic priest and Harvard professor, and one of the few men who saw the Dead Sea Scrolls both before 1967 (when the jews shut off access to them) and 1993 (when access was opened again to scholars) had attested that a near-complete Aramaic manuscript of 1 Enoch had disappeared during the time that the scrolls were out of the public eye. After making that claim, he was immediately branded an "anti-semite".

[Unnamed]

Yeah, he also said:

In 1990 Strugnell gave an interview to Ha'aretz in which he said that Judaism was a "horrible religion" which "should not exist,". He also said that Judaism was "a Christian heresy, and we deal with our heretics in different ways. You are a phenomenon that we haven't managed to convert -- and we should have managed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Strugnell

That might have helped him gain that reputation.