Google posting the complete Dead Sea Scrolls online

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Google posting the complete Dead Sea Scrolls online

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NYTimes reporting

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/world/middleeast/20scrolls.html New Web Life for the Dead Sea Scrolls

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The Israel Antiquities Authority, the custodian of the scrolls, the 2,000-year-old biblical and apocryphal texts discovered last century in caves in the Judean desert, announced Tuesday that it was collaborating with Google’s research and development arm in Israel on uploading newly digitized images of the closely guarded manuscripts and making them available to all online in a matter of months.

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AdWords in the Bible...

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Find them at sheep.com!

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@Greg - excited about the

@Greg - excited about the idea of being able to look at the dss - literally laughed outloud at your joke lol

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