The Dead Sea Scrolls

In Jerusalem at the Israel Museum with the support of the largest search engine Google had lined the World Wide Web photos Qumran manuscripts, which are better known under the name of Dead Sea Scrolls. From now on, every user of the web can study the ancient manuscripts that are available in very high resolution.Among the images: a large scroll and leaf Temple prophet Ishayagu.

A specialist in the field of scanning ancient manuscripts, Ardon Bar-Hama, decided to use the latest technology using light waves.This technology allows the simultaneous and protect the artifact from damage and already recognize the erased words and symbols.

Recall that the letters were discovered during the investigation of the Qumran caves on the northwestern part of the coast of the Dead Sea in the 1947-1956's. The language of these scrolls mostly Aramaic and Hebrew. But just as there are also fragments of the Greek language and documents from the Second Temple period. If you take the time interval, the oldest dates from the III century BC, and the youngest of the 70th year of our era. Recall that this year, when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple. Parchment, on which the letters are made of goatskin.

The Dead Sea Scrolls in digital format include War Scroll, the Temple Scroll, Big scroll of the prophet Ishayagu, Scroll charter community, as well as comments about the Book of the Prophet Havvakuka.

Plans to repair the Temple have been described in the Temple scroll; The story of the angel Michael, who leads the warriors of light against darkness, soldiers, described in the book the Warriors; Scroll same statute tells us about the basic information about the structure and life of the Jewish community during the Second Temple period; The first two chapters, which are in the book of the prophet, full of commentary on the book of the prophet Havvakuka.

This project was made possible only thanks to the support of Google, that their experts were able to digitize thousands of ancient documents, even those documents that have come to the memorial Yad Vashem.