Richard Robinson [w]rites:
| On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Wendy Galovich wrote:
| > At 09:31 PM 1/5/2001 UTC, John Chambers wrote:
| > >
| > >... In a couple cases, people have scanned in music
| > >so that others can transcribe it to abc. (This isn't unusual; it has
| > >been done with a lot of old documents, most notoriously with the Dead
| > >Sea Scrolls.)
| >
| > 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.
Suddenly anyone who fancied themselves a biblical scholar (and who
was willing to dig into digitized photos of 1900-year-old Aramaic
scribbled on papyri) could start doing their own analysis.
If you ask a couple of search sites, you can find out lots about the
Scrolls. There seem to be a lot of sites now that deal with them.
Some are very scholarly, some are very religious, some are very both,
and some are sheer nonsense.
I wonder if anyone has yet used passages from the Scrolls as lyrics
to songs?
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