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Its website gives the history and a description of the monastery at .Ī fascinating seven-minute video about Saint Catherine’s Monastery and why it is protected by its Muslim neighbors is at. Saint Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Ī fascinating short video prepared by the Israel Antiquities Authority gives a quick introduction to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls at o. Įxplore the Dead Sea Scrolls at the website of the Shrine of the Book, the museum in Jerusalem built to house them, at . An introduction to the project is online at. The Isaiah Scroll digitization is part of a project by the Shrine of the Book and Google to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls. You can read about the Great Isaiah Scroll, unroll it, enlarge it, and get an English translation at.

However, there is no index to let you know at what you are looking. You can view the entire Aleppo Codex online at . Click on “A Wandering Bible: The Aleppo Codex” at the left. Ī wonderful description of the Aleppo Codex and its history is on the website of the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The British Library’s website describes this manuscript at. The British Library has a Peshitta (simple Syriac) Pentateuch from 463-464. Wim Visscher in Buckinghamshire, England, showed the BBC how parchment is made in a fascinating four-minute video at. This interesting video tells the story, although you will have to read the translation in subtitles.

Making papyrus in Egypt had nearly died out until a papyrus industry grew up in a village in the Nile Delta, making papyrus for souvenirs. This gives an overview of the entire process. A British filmmaker, Roland Carn, won a competition for the best film made on a smartphone with his 2017 video on how papyrus was made.

Codex gigas translated to english online