Digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls
The New York Times ran a story this week about an ambitious project with great scholarly and general interest potential: the digitization of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Sophisticated technology is enabling photographers to create high-quality reproductions without damaging the scrolls, and the resulting images will be made available online. Currently, even those who have the good fortune to see the scrolls in person must usually view them in dim light, often surrounded by crowds of people, so digital copies anyone can conveniently access at their leisure will be a wonderful development.
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