The Dead Sea Scrolls to be available online

The New York Times reports that Israel to Show Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet:

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JERUSALEM — In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every one of the thousands of fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls with the aim of making the entire file — among the most sought-after and examined documents on earth — available to all on the Internet.
Equipped with high-powered cameras with resolution and clarity many times greater than those of conventional models, and with lights that emit neither heat nor ultraviolet rays, the scientists and technicians are uncovering previously illegible sections and letters of the scrolls, discoveries that could have significant scholarly impact.
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I remember hearing a joke years ago:

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A Pope dies and goes to heaven. St Peter says, “Is there anything you wanna see? Anything you missed out on in your life?”
The Pope says, “Yes! I would love to see the original version of the Bible!”
St Peter says, “OK. Come over here then, go in that little room.”
After a while the Pope cries out, “Oh no!”
St Peter runs in and asks what’s wrong.
The Pope says, “This word, ‘celebrate’! We thought it was ‘celibate’!”
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I wonder what we'll find as some of the original version of the scriptures become available.

(Hat tip: Reddit)


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