The scrolls of Genesis and the Ten Commandments henceforth online: Stakes and Opportunities around this Project.

The project which has been in incubation during the years is now available for everyone around the world.

In fact since December 18, 2012, the Israel Antiquities Authority is launching the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, an online collection of some 5,000 images of scroll fragments...
The texts include one of the early known copies of the Book of Deuteronomy, which includes the Ten Commandments; part of Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis, which describes the creation of the world; and hundreds more 2,000-year-old texts, shedding light on the time when Jesus lived and preached, and on the history of Judaism.

Hundreds of manuscripts made up of thousands of fragments, discovered from 1947 and until the early 1960’s in the Judean Desert along the western shore of the Dead Sea, are henceforth available to the public online.

 The high resolution images aim to be extremely detailed and can be accessed through various search options on the site.

The project has been possible with the participation of: Leon Levy Foundation; Arcadia Fund, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google.
Google host and has developed the advanced imaging and web technologies to bring to the web hundreds of Dead Sea Scrolls images as well as specially developed supporting resources in a user-friendly platform intended for the public, students and scholars alike.

Henceforth users and scholars can discover and decipher details invisible to the naked eye, at 1215 dpi resolution. The site displays infrared and color images that are equal in quality to the Scrolls themselves. There’s a database containing information for about 900 of the manuscripts, as well as interactive content pages. We’re thrilled to have been able to help this project through hosting on Google Storage and App Engine, and use of Maps, YouTube and Google image technology.