Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls

2021

Papers presented at the Book and Paper Group Session, AIC’s 46th Annual Meeting, May 29-June 2, 2018, Houston, Texas caves with scrolls over a period of eight years. The excavated material was brought to the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem, where it was studied by an international team of biblical scholars. All together, these excavations yielded thousands of fragments comprising around 900 manuscripts spanning a period of time from the third century BCE to the first century CE. In addition to the material found in the Qumran caves, the IAA’s collection includes manuscripts from six other locations in the Judean Desert dating from the fourth century BCE to the seventh century CE. Around 80% of the collection is parchment while the remaining 20% is papyrus. The original scholars, working on the world’s largest jigsaw puzzle, arranged the thousands of fragments of varying sizes into over 1,500 glass plates (fig. 1).

Eikonopoila, 2011

2011

New Studies in the Archaeology of the Judean Desert Collected Papers (eds.: Ofer Sion Joe Uziel Amir Ganor Eitan Klein), 2023

Analytica Chimica Acta, 2011

Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls - The Case of 4Q418a, 2022

Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present book augments these methods to a full-scale protocol, while adapting them to a new computerized environment. Fundamental methodological issues are illuminated as part of the discussion, and the potential margin of error is provided on an empirical basis, as practiced in the sciences. The method is then exemplified with regard to the scroll 4Q418a, a copy of a wisdom composition from Qumran.

manuscript cultures 15, 2018

"A proposito dell'edizione critica del «Formicarius», di Jean Nider a cura di Catherine Chêne. Insieme al «Malleus Maleficarum», l'opera ora editata è riferimento cruciale del Quattrocento. Il trattato, finora noto per antiche copie a stampa, si muove all'interno di un progetto di riforma sociale integrale della società, portato avanti da alcuni Ordini religiosi del XV secolo". 🔗 Per acquistare il volume: https://bit.ly/49eFTph ➡️ Vedi anche: https://www.academia.edu/114975309/Catherine_Ch%C3%AAne_Le_Formicarius_de_Jean_Nider_O_P_1438_La_soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_chr%C3%A9tienne_au_miroir_de_l_Observance