On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, John Chambers wrote:
> Richard Robinson [w]rites:
> | On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Wendy Galovich wrote:
> | >
> | > Really?? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls sound like in abc?? :-)
> | > (Sorry John, I couldn't resist!)
> |
> | Quite right too - it's the best bit of bait I've seen in ages :) Have they
> | really ? All of them ? And are they available to anybody that might want
> | to transcribe them ?
> |
> | I don't want to do that myself, you understand; just curious, because it
> | was such a very long time that they weren't available.
>
> Didn't you hear about it? Well, I suppose to most people (and most
> news people), it's importance was somewhat less than the latest
> football scores. But it did get reported here and there, including on
> NPR here in the States.
>
> A few years back, in the early 90's, some people got access to some
> photos of the Dead Sea Scrolls, made copies, and put them on the Net.
> The Scrolls' "owners" were duly outraged. They had a nice thing going
> for 40 years, acting as religious gatekeepers to the Scrolls, able to
> exclude people who didn't have the Right Attitude, and so on.
I remember bumping into one or two of those photos, back in the early days
of the web (nostalgia. Trumpet Winsock !), but as you say, they seemed
very much an exception. I wondered if the rest of them were now equally
available.
So many search engines, so little time ...
--
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
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