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Google has teamed up with The Israel Antiquities Authority in a project to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls into the digital age. From the Washington Post:

The Israel Antiquities Authority and Google announced Tuesday that they are collaborating to produce digitized images of the entire collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls and put them on the Internet, making the archaeological treasure available to anyone with the click of a mouse.

Anyone familiar with the Dead Sea Scrolls knows that getting access to the information they contain is cumbersome at best, and this promises to finally end that difficulty. Read the whole article for more information and really cool pictures.

HT: Evangelical Textual Criticism