Open Dead Sea

About

A public edition, not a plate archive.

The wording lives in Git. Proposed readings become pull requests. Photographs stay with the Israel Antiquities Authority and the other libraries that published them. Each manuscript page sends you there.

Who may do what

  1. Reader

    No account. The public text, translations, library links, and the record of every proposed change.

  2. Contributor

    Sign in with GitHub. Suggest a reading. Credit accrues when the work is accepted.

  3. Peer reviewer

    Trusted by accepted work or by academic standing. Two must agree before a contributor change enters the edition.

  4. Editor

    The small group in CODEOWNERS. Emergency fixes and academic verification.

Hebrew and Aramaic sources

The working explorer ingested two major sources. This public edition does not copy Abegg values into Git until that license is accepted in writing.

Planned public-domain glosses for this site are BDB 1906 and Jastrow 1903, keyed to the Unicode lemma. Leon Levy and the Israel Museum are outbound viewers only.

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