The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library

The new and comprehensive electronic reference work on The Dead Sea Scrolls, prepared by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, under the editorship of Emanuel Tov. This third volume of the DSS CD-ROM gives a more complete coverage of all of the published non-biblical DSS materials, including scrolls identified in 2004 and 2005. The combination of a powerful text search engine and sophisticated image-manipulating software allows wide research possibilities. The database is powered by version 7 of WordCruncherR. This version is fully Unicode compatible, so that one may cut and paste from the database into Microsoft Word etc. The software allows users to search for words according to their root forms in Hebrew and Aramaic. The database also has an improved image set. Many images have been replaced with higher resolution copies, additional images have been included, and each fragment or scroll image is individually labeled.