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Dead Sea Scrolls Put Online for the World to See

Those scrolls of the Dead Sea, the Dead Sea Scrolls, once approachable by only a very select few, are now available for viewing by anyone with an internet connection, thanks to a collaboration between Google and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Most people have two questions about Dead Sea Scrolls: 1. What are the Dead Sea Scrolls? And 2. Where are the DeadSea Scrolls? Now the answer to the second question is easy: they are online (see link below). As to the first question, put simply, the Dead Sea Scrolls are the earliest known biblical documents from around the time of Christ (thought to be from 125 years before the birth of Christ through about 70 years after), and include the earliest known versions of the Hebrew bible, and other relevant documents. And now they are online!