All I can say is finally - and AWESOME!!

[RamboPreacher]

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847361890&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

and another not-related link about the DSS:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/12eeda2e-b030-11dc-b874-0000779fd2ac,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F12eeda2e-b030-11dc-b874-0000779fd2ac.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bib-arch.org%2FbswbOOnews.html&nclick_check=1
you will have to register a free account to see it all, bit pretty kewl.
for those that don't want another registration...

From the Dead Sea to the digital age

By Alan Cane

Published: December 22 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 22 2007 02:00

The Dead Sea scrolls, the most potent source of our knowledge of Judaism and early Christianity, are to be digitised for the internet in a project that could take up to five years. It will involve the manipulation of some 15,000 scraps of leather or papyrus, some no bigger than a speck of dust.

Project leader Simon Tanner, of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London, said the difficulty of photographing the scrolls would be deepened by the fact that in many cases there is little contrast between the writing and the material on which it is written.

The team would be using a digital camera offering up to 20 times more resolution than a conventional model and an infra-red camera that would enable the script to be more easily read against the background.

Tanner said he had worked on more than 450 digitisation projects and the scrolls were the most technically challenging he had faced. The Israel Antiquities Authority faced complex handling and conservation issues in making the scrolls available for digitisation.

The publication of the scrolls was completed in 2001 after a period of 35 years in which they were monopolised by a group of scholars. They have been photographed only once before, in the 1950s. Now the intention is to make them available to amateurs and professionals alike, allowing people to manipulate the images of the fragments in a number of different ways.

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2007

[paul]

Nancy and I and some friends are going to SanDiego Museum tomorrow to see the Dead Sea Scrolls here on exipition.

[RamboPreacher]

Nancy and I and some friends are going to SanDiego Museum tomorrow to see the Dead Sea Scrolls here on exipition.

kewl. I went to see the exhibit when it was in Kansas City.

[one love]

That is cool.


Rambopreacher

I watched a documentary last night and they were debating the story of Daniel and the 3 hebrew children. The Idol constructed by King Neb. was said to be 9ft. by 90 ft tall. (i think it was 90 it may have been 60)
One archeaologist(spelling) said that they could never had built something out of gold that tall, nor could they construct an object that tall without collapsing being that it was only 9ft wide.
Another said they would have at that time gold plaited it and that the structure is never recorded as saying it was a free standing object just that it is 9 ft by 90 ft. So he implied it could have been built on the side of a pre-existing building or structure and would have stood easily. So that they should not look at it 3 deminsional at all.

What are your thoughts on this, I know you study this type things all the time. I was interested in what you think.