Israel Teams with Google to Launch Digital Library of 5,000 Dead Sea Scroll Images

(AP-Washington Post) Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 fragments of the ancient Dead Sea scrolls online in a partnership with Google. The digital library includes texts like the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the Ten Commandments, and a portion of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, dated to the first century BCE. View the scrolls at www.deadseascrolls.org.il.


2012-12-20 00:00:00

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