The Dead Sea Scrolls

Examining and preserving the Dead Sea Scrolls, a joint project of the Antiquities Authority, Israel Museum, Hebrew University, and Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, led by Dr. Assaf Spanier from the Department of Software Engineering at Azrieli College and fourth-year software engineering students in his image processing course.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) are collections of ancient manuscripts discovered in the Judean Desert, from 1947 through the present, in caves found along the wadis leading into the Dead Sea. The fragmentary remains of about 1,000 manuscripts that contain literary works dating to the Hellenistic-Roman period, discovered in caves surrounding Qumran, represent the rich cultural heritage of Second Temple Judaism within Greco-Roman contexts, which was also the cradle of emerging Christianity. As such, they shed unprecedented light on the early history of western civilization.

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