Open-Access Resources For Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies

The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Library – Using the world’s most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, accessible to the public for the first time.

The Israel Antiquities Authority – Home of the vast majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Library, the Israel Antiquities Authority’s function is to attend to all antiquities’ affairs in Israel, including, among others the uncovering, excavation, preservation, restoration, development, administration, maintenance and operation of sites and antiquities, the supervision over archaeological excavations, maintaining a scientific library of the archaeological history of Israel, and the documentation of archaeological data (etc.).

​The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem – Developed in partnership with Google, the website gives users access to searchable, fast-loading, high-resolution images of the scrolls, as well as short explanatory videos and background information on the texts and their history. Five complete scrolls from the Israel Museum have been digitized for the project and are now accessible online.

Scripta Qumranica Electronica -  the SQE provides free, open access to tools for Dead Sea Scrolls research. This resource combines digital images of Qumran fragments with textual and linguistic data for all texts included in  Qumran­ Digital, the digital Qumran Dictionary at Göttingen Academy

Qumran-Digital Text und Lexicon - This project aims to develop a philological dictionary that covers the entire vocabulary of the Dead Sea texts. All dictionary articles and the underlying text are published online and open access.

The Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature, home of the most comprehensive and up-to-date Bibliography on the Dead Sea Scrolls, located at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.