Comments on: Google digitizes the Dead Sea Scrolls and puts them online

By: Cynthia Lynn Davis

Cynthia Lynn Davis — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:28:00 +0000

Google says that you can zoom in on the Temple Scroll and see what the animal skin that the text is written on looks like. The Great Isaiah Scroll can be read chapter and verse. The Hebrew text is also translated into English when clicked. The scrolls went online via a partnership between Google and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

By: Jim_f_mcm

Jim_f_mcm — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:12:00 +0000

There is always got to be some person who takes things literal. Of course the scrolls are not Christian, but they are loved by Christians as if the scrolls were theirs. And in fact they are now, we claim them as the basis for our New Testament, which was built upon the validity of the Old Testament.
Losen up my friend and don’t be so closed minded. The scrolls are now for everyone who wishes to study them and take them to heart.

By: DrJ

DrJ — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:34:00 +0000

These are Jewish documents not Christian. Per Wikipedia: The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.[

By: Mark Kenyon II

Mark Kenyon II — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:14:00 +0000

Is there a link here somewhere?