Imaging the dead sea scrolls

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 1997, Pages

  Knox, Keith ^a   Johnston, Robert ^b   Easton Jr , Roger L ^b  

^a XEROX CORPORATION   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 5544240463     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.8.8.000030     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. J.C. VanderKam, The Dead Sea Scrolls Today (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., 1994), p. 5.
2. Y. Yadin, The Temple Scroll I-III, Vol. I-III (Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983).
3. Y. Yadin, "The Temple Scroll: The longest and most recently discovered Dead Sea Scroll," Biblical Archaeology Review, (Sept/Oct 1984).
4. The original photographs were provided by B. and K. Zuckerman, in collaboration with J.H. Charlesworth, the Princeton Theological Seminary Dead Sea Scrolls Project, and the Shrine of the Book, Jerusalem, Israel. The original scroll fragments are housed in the Shrine of the Book and the old Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. Because of the fragile nature of the scroll material, access to the original manuscripts is limited to biblical scholars with permission from the Israeli Antiquities Authority.
5. Our interest in enhancing images of the Dead Sea Scrolls began with Emanuel Tov, Editor-in-Chief of the Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He provided us with several photographs of manuscripts found at Qumran and encouraged us to experiment with digital enhancement to increase visibility. The authors subsequently acquired the photographs seen in this article from the Zuckermans.
6. Xerox Systems Institute, Color Encoding Standard (Xerox Corp., Palo Alto, Calif. 1989), pp. 3-1.
7. Y. Yadin, The Temple Scroll I (Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem, Israel, 1983).
8. E. Qimron, The Temple Scroll - A Critical Edition with Extensive Reconstructions (Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev Press and the Israel Exploration Society, Beer Sheva, Jerusalem, Israel, 1996).
9. G.H. Bearman and S.I. Spiro, "Archaeological applications of advanced imaging techniques," Biblical Archaeologist 59:1, 56-66 (1996).