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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: dwashbur AT nyx.net
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] MSS library was Where to read biblical Dead Sea Scroll
  • Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:15:06 +0100

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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