Google has posted in free access ancient biblical manuscripts

Fragment of the Ten Commandments

Just over a year ago, Google helped put online five manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls (also known as Qumran manuscripts ), the oldest biblical manuscripts that exist at the moment. They were written over 2,000 years ago on pieces of parchment and papyrus.

The Israel Antiquities Authority, jointly with Google Israel, launched the Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, an online library of Dead Sea Scrolls, named after Leon Levy . The collection has about 5,000 manuscript fragments in very good quality. The texts contain early copies of the Book of Deuteronomy (the fifth book of the Old Testament ), which includes the 10 commandments, part of the first chapter of Genesis, which describes the creation of the world and hundreds of two thousand years of texts that shed light on the days when Jesus lived and preached as well as on the history of Judaism. All of them are provided with comments and additional information for ease of study.

fragment of the Book of Genesis

Millions of users and scientists can help to decipher and translate ancient texts, as well as details invisible to the naked eye. The site shows infrared and color images that are equal in quality to the original. Google provides Google Storage and App Engine hosting for the project, as well as its own Google Maps, YouTube and Google Image technology.
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Manuscripts were discovered 65 years ago in the caves of Qumran, in the caves of Wadi Murabba'at (south of Qumran), in Khirbet Mirda (south-west of Qumran), as well as in several other caves of the Judean desert and Masada. A study of the manuscripts confirmed that at least some of them were written in the Qumran community.

You can get acquainted with pictures of manuscripts on the library website.
www.deadseascrolls.org.il