Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

This reminds me of a plan I've been working on all Summer and have  
been meaning to pass to the list members to see how it would be  
received.

I would like to build a freely available digital library of digital  
MSS of all biblical texts (and closely related) in every extant  
language. The kind of thing that the inquiring mind can browse and  
search on line. I want it to be professionally catalogued so that a  
user can see the text of any MSS on demand and in a font which  
resembles the text in the original MSS. Obviously, this will take  
countless man hours of voluntary work but the benefits to the  
community I think would be worth it.

So my questions to the list members are:

a) would this be the kind of thing you would use?

b) would anybody like to be one of the esteemed sopherim?

James Christian

Quoting dwashbur AT nyx.net:

> On 15 Aug 2009 at 10:21, Fred Schafer wrote:
>
> > Hi, I've just begun learning Hebrew, and I was wondering where I can
> > read the biblical manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls.  So far, the
> > only books I can find have only the non-biblical material, such as
> > "The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition".  I've seen that Accordance
> > Bible Software has a DSS module, but the software and module cost
> > hundreds of dollars.  What other options are available?
>
> Not to be excessively self-promoting, but my book, "A Catalog of   
> Biblical Passages in the
> Dead Sea Scrolls," gives extensive bibliographic information for   
> both biblical scrolls and
> non-biblical scrolls containing biblical texts.  The vast majority   
> of the scrolls are published
> with photos in the series "Discoveries in the Judean Desert" from   
> Oxford, but believe me,
> you don't want to try and buy them.  Better to find a library that   
> has them because the cost
> of them makes the Accordance module look like a bargain.
>
> The other big problem with the Accordance module, of course, is that  
>  it pretty much only
> works on Mac, at least the last I heard.  But if you can get near a   
> decent academic library,
> my book can help you find some good quality photo editions and such   
> to work with.
>
> Dave Washburn
>
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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