Dead Sea Scrolls go Digital

By Matthew Schwartz in briefsNews on August 27, 2008

Well, it’s about time. More than 2,000 years after they were written the Dead Sea Scrolls are going digital. In the next two years the Israel Antiquities Authority will digitally photograph and scan every piece of parchment and papyrus that makes up the scrolls, which include the oldest written record of the Bible’s Old Testament.

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Matthew Schwartz is Senior Editor of ScribeMedia.org and host of the WebTV series, From Print to Digital.

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