The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

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Celebrating the Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project – and now in Chinese

One million unique visitors in just 4 days Dr. Susan Hazan, Curator of New Media, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Dr. Susan Hazan – Crowd-sourcing R Us - Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participary Culture Salzburg Global

Seminar – October, 2011

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http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/dss_video

The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Mediahttp://dss.collections.imj.org.il/media

In the MediaGlobal Media CoverageBloomberg - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online as Google Joins Israel Museum to Help Scholars" Associated Press - "2000 year old Dead Sea Scrolls go online" CNN International   - 7 minute  Interview with Yossi Matias CNN.com - "Google Makes 5 Dead Sea Scrolls Searchable" (includes additional TV piece) MSNBC - "Call them the Dead E-Scrolls: Ancient documents go digital" AFP - "Israel Museum, Google put Dead Sea Scrolls online"Country Specific Coverage

Israel:Channel 2 evening news cast - Leading news channel Walla -  Leading news website - "The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online with the help of Google" People and Computers -  Professional website " The Israel Museum of Jerusalem and Google have made the Dead Sea Scrolls live online"Ynet - Leading news website - "Dead sea scrolls now online"Ynet (English) - "Dead Sea Scrolls go online"Nana 10 -  Popular news website - Dead sea scrolls now online" Haaretz print edition (front page) - "The Dead Sea Scrolls go online after 2,000 years" Haaretz - News website - "Dead Sea scrolls: Now online" Calcalist - Financial website - "The Dead Sea Scrolls go online" Israel Hayom - Daily national paper - "Isaiah's vision - Version 2.0" Mako - Leading news website - "History in High Definition: The Dead Sea Scrolls go online" Jerusalem Post - "Google and Israel Museum publish Dead Sea Scrolls online" TechSlut (blog) HT Mobile - "Dead Sea Scrolls go digital"Haaretz - "Virtual Dead Sea Scrolls get more than a million hits in just one week" (plus Hebrew version)

US:Associated Press - "2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online"

Notable Syndication: MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Boston Globe, Fox News, USA Today, CBS News, Huffington Post, Newsday, NPR, The Sacramento Bee

Bloomberg - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online as Google Joins Israel Museum to Help Scholars"Notable Syndication: San Francisco Chronicle

ABC News - "Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online" ABC News - (TV item) - "Google and the Israel Museum have posted the Dead Sea Scrolls Online" TIME - "Google Side-Project Update: Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Viewable Online" CNET - "Dead Sea Scrolls come to life on the Web" NPR Blog - "Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Online" CNN - "Google makes 5 Dead Sea Scrolls searchable" NBC News - "Dead Sea Scrolls Live Online" Forbes - "Google is Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls" Gizmodo - "The Google-Powered, Digital Dead Sea Scrolls are a History Buff's Dream" Los Angeles Times - "Dead Sea Scrolls go online, thanks to Google, Israel Museum" Mashable - "Google & The Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online" PC Magazine - "Google, Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online" PC Magazine - "The Dead Sea Scrolls join other artifacts living online" PCWorld.com - "Dead Sea Scrolls Post in Time for Rosh Hashanah" Engadget - "Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cloud, promises they won't dissolve when you touch them" Wired.com - "Google's Dead Sea Scrolls project: why putting parchment & papyrus in the cloud matters to civilization" VentureBeat - "Google and Israel post 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls online" Popular Science - "Video: The Dead Sea Scrolls are Now Available for Your Online Perusal, Courtesy of Google" SlashGear - "Google digitizes the Dead Sea Scrolls and puts them online" Geek.com - "Google launches the Dead Sea Scrolls online project" TechDigest - "Dead Sea Scrolls brought to life online by Google" Digital Trends - "Dead Sea Scrolls now viewable online thanks to Google" The Next Web - "Google-powered project brings the Dead Sea Scrolls online" Examiner.com - National - "The Dead Sea Scrolls enter the Digital Age" SmartPlanet - "Digitized sea scrolls: oldest biblical manuscripts available online" Voice of America - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online" UPI.com - "Dead Sea Scrolls now online" The Baltimore Sun - "Dead Sea Scrolls: a remarkable look at early Bible" Detroit Free Press - "Dead Sea Scrolls go online for 1st time" History.com - "Unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls: Six Fascinating Facts" Physorg.com - "2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online" The New York Jewish Week - "Dead Sea Scrolls: From Qumran Caves to Museum to the Web" Cleveland Leader - "2000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scrolls Digitized & Now Available Online" The Christian Post - "Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online" The Christian Science Monitor - "Dead Sea Scrolls now available to all online" Voice of America - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online"The Washington Post Blog - "Google Takes the Dead Sea Scrolls Online"

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The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

 What happened in those first four days?

2.56 Pages/Visit

Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

1,051,439 Unique Visits

2,691,195 Page views

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

 Where did they come from?Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

1,051,434 unique visits came from 213 countries/territories

Top 12

1 United States 410,3932 Japan 59,9083 Canada 50,4974 Netherlands 38,5585 Croatia 36,9006 United Kingdom 36,3307 Brazil 35,2048 France 30,4529 Germany 27,12110 Spain 25,54011 Argentina 22,16712 Israel 21,679

 

  

 What languages do they speak?Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011 Sep 25, 2011 – Nov 9, 2011

Source Medium Visits

(direct) 287,569facebook.com 48,472google organic 43,974googleblog.blogspot.com 35,348news.cnet.com 26,728bbc.co.uk 23,515english.imjnet.org.il 16,089index.hr 15,370washingtonpost.com 15,080youtube.com 14,559foxnews.com 13,439elpais.com 11,447nu.nl 11,090blog.livedoor.jp 8,917bloomberg.com 8,103japan.cnet.com 8,090google.com 7,573yahoo organic 7,477dailynews.yahoo.co.jp 7,372bing 7,275gizmodo.com 6,924spiegel.de 6,717abcnews.go.com 6,584csmonitor.com 6,068theregister.co.uk 5,655latimesblogs.latimes.com 5,608forbes.com 5,334huffingtonpost.com 5,262history.com 5,205jpost.com 4,952imj.org.il 4,717

 How they came to us?

Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

Source Medium Visits

(direct) 287,569facebook.com 48,472google organic 43,974googleblog.blogspot.com 35,348news.cnet.com 26,728bbc.co.uk 23,515english.imjnet.org.il 16,089index.hr 15,370washingtonpost.com 15,080youtube.com 14,559foxnews.com 13,439elpais.com 11,447nu.nl 11,090blog.livedoor.jp 8,917bloomberg.com 8,103japan.cnet.com 8,090google.com 7,573yahoo organic 7,477dailynews.yahoo.co.jp 7,372bing 7,275gizmodo.com 6,924spiegel.de 6,717abcnews.go.com 6,584csmonitor.com 6,068theregister.co.uk 5,655latimesblogs.latimes.com 5,608forbes.com 5,334huffingtonpost.com 5,262history.com 5,205jpost.com 4,952imj.org.il 4,717

 How they came to us?

Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

 On which mobile platform

Sep 25, 2011 - Sep 30, 2011

Isaiah Scroll 887,603

War Scroll 250,577

Dead Sea Scrolls video 186,114

Temple Scroll 185,520

Habakkuk Scroll 116,153

Community Scroll 108,685

About the Project 66,221 Isaiah video 35,599

War video 14,043

Temple video 11,366

Discovery of the Scrolls 10,670

Habakkuk video 9,770

Temple video 9,132

Community video 8,723

Significance 8,450

Shrine of the Book 5,660

Qumran Community 5,034

In the Media 1,024

Terms © 715

1,553,764 Homepage

Most popular page

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Lord, it's amazing. I love what you've done for us. 놀라우신 주님 , 당신이 행하시는 모든 일 , 나는 사랑합니다 .LeeSaya 9/28 3:45pm

I am Bubba Nicholson, Stevie Spielberg's friend. I want to offer my congratulations to you all on this magnificent achievement. I hope that you manage to publish all the texts quickly. It would also be nice to see the oldest Christian Bible and Koran in Israel, along with other fine old books of Israel on these pages

I am so pleased and blessed by this site and the sight of the anointed word of God! One of my favorite versions of the bible is exactly the same words of these Dead Sea Scrolls! Wow is all I can say! Precious!

Amazing. And to be able to view this online, connecting Cent -1 to Cent 21. Wow!!!jack 9/30 1:43pm

I'm speechless.amananderson 9/29 5:24pm

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It's the new, hip way that scholars are using the term -- BCE (before common era) and CE (common era). The acronyms BC and AD are considered old school, now. Ü

Was the lost gospel of Thomas in these writings somewhere? If not is it something that might be published? Thank you so much for putting these online – this is just what the internet was invented for!Kevin McCaughey 9/28 4:30pm

No. They were written before she was born.Ray 10/2 7:51am

Ok I don’t get this, there is so much information missing, who ate the bottom of these scrolls, how are we going to figure out the missing parts?Eli 9/27 4:36am

We won't/can't --that is the frustration of studying ancient documents[Jeremy] 10/1 5:39am

Thank you for allowing the public to view these. I am however a little confused by the fact you would use the "BCE" term instead of "BC" while referring to[Jeremy] 9/27 6:31pm

No. The dead sea scrolls are mostly from before the time of Jesus. The Gospel of Thomas was part of the manuscripts found in Egypt (Nag Hammadi) in 1945 three years before the DSS were found. The DSS were written by people who were part of a Jewish sect. The Nag Hammadi texts were about 400-500 years later and were written by Gnostics --a Christian sect. The Gospel of Thomas has been widely published and is still in print. An Amazon search should show several. Many of the Nag Hammadi texts are still in print in James Charlesworth's New Testament Apocrypha from Doubleday.Ray 10/1 4:10am

Is there any information about Mary Magdalene in these scrolls?goldenpuma33 10/1 2:25pm

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Dead Sea Scrolls go online | Christians United for IsraelDead Sea Scrolls Online ⒺⓇⒺⓉⓏⓎⒾⓈⓇⒶⒺⓁ Jewishbloggers   Dead Sea Scrolls Online Glowinteractive What happens when history and technology merge .... ? Dead Sea Scrolls 2.0  USATODAY Digital technology brings new life to Dead Sea Scrolls Washingtonpost The Washington PostDead Sea Scrolls go online, 2,000 years later  Israeli Consulate (@israelconsulate) Dead Sea Scrolls can now be Google'd - Still behind glass,but we removed the "No Touching" signs  Jerusalem Post Jerusalem Post NewsGoogle and Israel Museum publish Dead Sea Scrolls online: Fragments are "our Mona Lisa," says museum director.  AP The Associated PressTwo thousand years after they were written, some of the Dead Sea Scrolls go online for the first time  RWW ReadWriteWebGoogle Announces Digital Dead Sea Scrolls Project EngadgetGoogle puts the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cloud, promises they won't dissolve when you touch them  

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死海古卷数码计划中文版由香港城市大学的以下四位学生翻译完成：

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死海古卷数码计划中文版由香港城市大学的以下四位学生翻译完成：

Olivia So Yin Wai 苏盈蔚Cynthia Ma Hiu Wan 马晓云Isabel Meng Qianyu 孟倩宇Zita Lau Mei Po 刘美宝

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The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

Dr. Susan HazanCurator of New Media

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