Tuesday, November 15, 2016

More on the Göttingen/IAA DSS project

THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: Scripta Qumranica Electronica.
The Dead Sea Scrolls - The Next Generation

Computer scientists and Dead Sea Scrolls scholars are building a digital work environment for one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century * This will enable the virtual joining of the “puzzle pieces” of thousands of ancient scrolls fragments found in Judean Desert caves, through the collaborative German-Israeli research of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Germany), the Israel Antiquities Authority, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University

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HT AJR. Background here and links.