Ten Commandments Goes Digital: 2,000-Year-Old Manuscript Now Online Through Cambridg

[Crabtownboy]

This should be of great interest to scholars.

One of the oldest known copies of the Ten Commandments, a Hebrew manuscript 2,000-years-old, is the latest historical text to become part of the Cambridge Digital Library's online treasure trove, Reuters reports.

Before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947, the document also known as the "Nash Papyrus" was the oldest known manuscript containing pieces of the Hebrew Bible, according to LiveScience. The document gets its name from an Egyptologist named Walter Llewellyn Nash who bought the invaluable text in 1902.

This is the first time the Ten Commandments has been released digitally, according to The Telegraph. Cambridge University published the document through its digital library.

"Because of their age and delicacy these manuscripts are seldom able to be viewed — and when they are displayed, we can only show one or two pages," university librarian Anne Jarvis said in a statement, according to LiveScience. "Now, through the generosity of the Polonsky Foundation, anyone with a connection to the Internet can select a work of interest, turn to any page of the manuscript, and explore it in extraordinary detail." [/size]

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[preachinjesus]

The digitization of these texts is really a great wellspring of resources for so many. I'm excited about the next 50 years and what it holds.

 

[InTheLight]

 

[Deacon]

Here they are:

Nash Papyrus Cambridge Digital Library [LINK]

Interesting article:

THE HEBREW PAPYRUS OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS By F. C. Burkitt [LINK]

Rob