Michigan State University (MSU) is using a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to digitize 20 pages from two Israelite Samaritan Pentateuchs, texts that were written more than 500 years ago.
According to excerpts from the article:
From book to Web, some of the world’s rarest religious documents will soon be available to anyone, anywhere, thanks to work provided by a Michigan State University research center.
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Pentateuch, known to Jews as the Torah or the first of three sections
of the Hebrew Bible, is also known to Christians as the first five
books of the Old Testament.
“Our project
aims to provide an online space where two distinct groups of
stakeholders in the Samaritan collection—biblical scholars and members
of the Samaritan community—can both access and make use of these
texts,” said William Hart-Davidson, co-director of the research center.
“A digital archive has the potential to simultaneously preserve
artifacts for posterity while broadening access.”
And the archive will build community, much like social networks Facebook or MySpace.
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