About
A public translation workspace, not a plate archive.
Read the source transcription and machine-draft English together. Translation suggestions enter a shared public desk; editors review them for later releases. Photographs remain with the institutions that published them.
How to take part
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Read freely
No account. Open manuscripts, machine drafts, source links, and public translation suggestions.
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Improve one line
Sign in with GitHub and suggest clearer or more accurate English. A note is optional.
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Review in public
Editors and trusted reviewers discuss suggestions and record what has been checked.
Hebrew and Aramaic sources
The original-language wording comes from two public Text-Fabric repositories. Both are CC BY-NC 4.0. Full notes: ETCBC/dss and ETCBC/BHSA. How this site uses them: the Sources document in the repo (docs/SOURCES.md).
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ETCBC/dss
Diplomatic transcription of the scrolls. Martin G. Abegg, Jr.; CACCHT; Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer. This is the Hebrew, Aramaic, and rare Greek wording on each manuscript page.
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ETCBC/BHSA 2021
Biblical Hebrew lexeme and gloss features. Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer. Lexical grounding for later translation work. A BHSA gloss is not the English of a Qumran line.
Lexical grounding
Planned public-domain glosses for this site are BDB 1906 and Jastrow 1903. Leon Levy and the Israel Museum are outbound photograph viewers only. We do not host plates.