The Quest For New Strategies In Teaching And Popularizing The Dead Sea Scrolls

Roitman, Adolfo

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“……it has become truly necessary to start developing systematically a new field of expertise, with its own theory and methods: the teaching and popularization of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Roitman, 2011, p. 722) In addition to a series of creative works and educational initiatives taking place at the Shrine of the Book itself (see Roitman, 2011), there has been a marked increase in the use of new technologies and availability of online educational resources (see Hazan, 2011), one significant manifestation of which has been both the Israel Museum's 'Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Project' (http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/) and the Israel Antiquities Authority's 'Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library' (http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/). Launched in 2011 and 2012 respectively, both in partnership with Google, these involve digitizing the scrolls and making them freely available online, so that visitors to these websites can access not only information and videos about the texts but also high-resolution searchable images of the scrolls themselves.…”

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2019

T&T Clark Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls

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For more than two-thirds of a century, the Dead Sea Scrolls have left a trail of intrigue and controversy in their wake. They have had an immeasurable impact, not only within the realms of academia and scholarship, but also upon the wider world, thanks to the widespread permeation of the scrolls into popular culture. On the one hand, they have provided scholars with a previously unimaginable wealth of textual material from the Second Temple period (shedding light, for instance, on the literature and social, political and religious world of the intertestamental era, as well as the transmission history of the scriptural texts), while on the other, the infamy resulting from years of restricted access and the consequent perceived secrecy surrounding their content has made them attractive to a fascinated public, for whom 'the Dead Sea Scrolls' constitutes 'a cultural "buzz-phrase" signifying mystery, conspiracy, and ancient or hidden knowledge' (Collins, 2011, p. 227). Indeed, both the extent to which the scrolls have permeated the public sphere and the position which they occupy can be aptly demonstrated by their inclusion in the studio set design for the popular BBC quiz programme QI ('Quite Interesting' [prod. John Lloyd and Piers Fletcher; BBC, 2003-]). A section of the large Cave 1 text of the Hodayot (the 'Thanksgiving Hymns') appears in a prominent position directly behind the host, Stephen Fry, alongside an astrological chart, the Rosetta Stone, and a series of scientific equations (see Figure 5.1). 1 That viewers have one of the Dead Sea Scrolls staring them in the face for most of the duration of the programme (whether they're aware of it or not) is 'quite interesting' in itself, but for those who do recognize it, the choice of this image and the context in which it is depicted are also rather telling, betraying an implicit association with higher learning and obscure or concealed knowledge.

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The Quest For New Strategies In Teaching And Popularizing The Dead Sea Scrolls

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