A fragment of a manuscript of the Ten Commandments.
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Google is once again providing a journey into ancient history with online images of rare scrolls dating back more than 2000 years.
Courtesy of Google, in collaboration with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the new Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library is now home to detailed digitized photographs of thousands of biblical and non-biblical manuscripts. These ancient scrolls were discovered in a remote cave near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956.
Among them, the scroll of the Ten Commandments may be one of the most fascinating. Dating back to sometime between 30 and 1 BCE (before the Common Era), the damaged yet still readable document in Hebrew is one of the earliest known copies of the Ten Commandments.
Other biblical scrolls include a copy of a section from the book of Genesis dated between 100 and 1 BCE, a Psalms document dated between 1 and 68 CE, and a ... [Read more]
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