
The Israel Antiquities Authority and Google have launched an online digital library of the Dead Sea Scrolls to mark the 65th anniversary of their discovery. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library contains more than 1,000 images of scroll fragments, 3,500 scans of negatives from the 1950s, a database documenting about 900 manuscripts that are 2,000 years old and an interactive content page. Some of the oldest texts displayed include a copy of the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the Ten Commandments, and part of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. There are also a number of copies of Psalms scrolls, letters and documents hidden by refugees fleeing the Roman army during the Bar Kochva revolt and hundreds of 2,000-year-old texts. The library can be viewed at www.deadseascrolls.org.il.





