[aruanan]

Although the entire collection hasn't been officially published or released to other researchers, it has been available to researchers in the form of copies for a long, long time.

Patently false, but spoken like a true catholic.

Well, whether officially or unofficially, one can now also get the complete texts on CD-ROM. (emphasis added) You want I should burn you a copy?

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UniformTitle:	Dead Sea scrolls
Title:	The Dead Sea scrolls electronic reference library [computer file] / edited by Timothy H. Lim in consultation with Philip S. Alexander.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press ; Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 1997-
Description:	computer laser optical discs : col. ; 4 3/4 in. Computer data and program.
Notes:	Title from disc label. Vol. 1 accompanied by user manual (xii, 54 p.). Vol. 2 accompanied by user manual (32 p.). System requirements: IBM PC or full compatible; 16 Mb RAM; MS-DOS 3.3 or higher; Windows 3.1 or higher; MSCDEX 2.0 or higher; double-speed CD-ROM drive compatible with MPC level 1 or higher; SVGA monitor set to display 256 colors; Microsoft mouse or compatible; 30 Mb hard disk space.
Contents:	v. 1. [Digitized images of all the biblical and non-biblical Dead Sea scrolls] (2 discs) -- v.1 The Dead Sea scrolls database (non-Biblical texts).
Summary:	Comprehensive collection of reference materials on the Dead Sea scrolls and related areas of interest including digitized images of the scrolls, transcriptions, translations, and associated literature.
Acknowledgement:	Gift of the Library Society
Subjects:	Dead Sea scrolls. Qumran community
Other entries:	Lim, Timothy H. Alexander, Philip S.
ISBN:	9004106979 (single user)

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Location	Call No.	Copy No.	Notes
Mixed Media, Regenstein Circ	CDRomBM487.D29 1997	c.1

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[IncredibleHulk]

Well, whether officially or unofficially, one can now also get the complete texts on CD-ROM. (emphasis added) You want I should burn you a copy?

Your information is so out of date it is dangerous. You probably still believe the Essenes were at Qumran.

The Dead Sea Scrolls at the Huntington

(A microfilm copy of the original in Jerusalem)

The Huntington is often asked about its connection with the Dead Sea Scrolls. The original Scrolls, discovered between 1947 and the early 1950s in caves near the Dead Sea, are housed in the Rockefeller Museum and the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem.

In 1982, the Preservation Council headed by Mrs. Elizabeth Hay Bechtel gave the Huntington a master set of Scroll microfilm negatives. The Huntington’s expectation was that it would provide a secure and stable environment for the preservation of the archival copy of the photographs and not serve as the primary center for their study. A duplicate set of negatives had been made for the Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, CA, and it was assumed that Biblical scholars would be able to satisfy their research needs there – especially since the Huntington does not have the specialized reference materials that Biblical scholars need.

At the time the Huntington Library decided to make copies of the microfilm available, access to the original Scrolls and fragments, believed to have been written between 200 B.C. and A.D. 68, was limited to seven scholars, each of whom were assigned some part to decipher, edit, and publish. Many qualified scholars were therefore excluded from studying the Scrolls. By 1990 an Israeli scholar, Emanuel Tov, was appointed editor, and he moved to expand the editorial committee and liberalize access.

In early August of 1991, then Huntington Library Director William A. Moffett proposed to his colleagues that the Library make its photographs of the Scrolls—the most extensive such resource not controlled by the official Scroll editors—as accessible as possible to researchers, putting an end to the question of limited scholarly access. On September 22, 1991, Dr. Moffett announced the Huntington would make microfilm copies of the Scrolls available to scholars and the public around the world through inter-library loan, which resulted in extensive media coverage.

The Huntington Library has provided microfilm copies of the Scrolls on indefinite loan to over 80 libraries in the United States and around the world. However, there are now a number of facsimile editions and translations (the Scrolls are written in Aramaic, Greek or Ancient Hebrew) that provide more accessible means of studying these materials.

There are a number of websites devoted to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among them the Israel Museum http://www.imj.org.il/shrine/, the Library of Congress http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/.html, and The Field Museum in Chicago http://www.fmnh.org./exhibits/scrolls_tempexhib2.htm.

Microfilm copies of the Scrolls are not available to the general public, but can be requested through inter-library loan from a public or academic library near you. Libraries wishing copies of the microfilm for reference purposes should complete a standard ALA Inter-Library Loan Form and submit it along with a check for US$50 to cover the cost of duplication, handling, and postage. Please mail your request and payment to Donna Stromberg, Assistant to the Library Director, The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA, 91108.