the israel museum: creative re-use of digital content
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The Israel Museum: Creative Re-use of Digital Content
Harvard EVA Minerva Conference
Dr. Susan Hazanr. Susan HazanCurator of New MediaCurator of New MediaThe Israel Museum, JerusalemThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Mark DION The Antiquarian Book Shop, 2008
The Israel MuseumThe Israel MuseumJerusalemJerusalem
Gallery space: 19,000 square metersGallery space: 19,000 square meters
20-acre campus: 81,000 square meters20-acre campus: 81,000 square meters
More than 500,000 objects of fine art, archaeology, Judaica More than 500,000 objects of fine art, archaeology, Judaica and Jewish ethnographyand Jewish ethnography
Representing the history of world culture from nearly one Representing the history of world culture from nearly one million years ago to the present day. million years ago to the present day.
20-dunam Art Garden: 20,000 square meters20-dunam Art Garden: 20,000 square meters
http://www.imj.org.ilhttp://www.imj.org.il
Art Wing
Jewish Art and Life Wing
Education Wing
Archaeological Wing
Second Temple ModelThis 50:1 scale model, covering nearly one acre, (4,000 square meters) evokes ancient Jerusalem at its peak, meticulously recreating its topography and architectural character in 66 CE
Nike, Goddess of VictoryNike, Goddess of VictoryCyzicus. Ca. 500-460 BCE. Stater (15.98g). Cyzicus. Ca. 500-460 BCE. Stater (15.98g). Phocaic standard. Winged Nike running left, Phocaic standard. Winged Nike running left, looking back, holding tuna by tail before herlooking back, holding tuna by tail before her..
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Thank you for your hard work, very valuable, we expect more discoveries!
Lucy Braun said:In the DSS of Isaiah 7:14, amnwal is set forth as ONE word, meaning it is a commanded NAME, whereas the translation SPLITS it into TWO WORDS, giving the false implication that it is a title. Mayaka said: Can you please tell me why the translators corrupted the scrolls and tried to say the original scribe did it acting like those scribes didnt know what the heck they were doing seriously
Елена said: Благодарю за Вашу кропотливую работу,Очень Ценно,будем Ждать ещё открытий! James Allen said:Thank You.
israelmuseumjerusalem (mod) said: @Ca2jarman, there are no immediate plans for further translations. Ca2jarman said: When will the other scrolls be translated in English?? Thanks for your work Ca2jarman said: Wow amazing Ching Ding said: @Robo,I totes agree with u. Chin Ding said: WoW. What cool scrolls.
Ezra said:BCE mean "before the common era" CE means "common era" This common era describes the point of time Christians, the assumed birth of their savior.
The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Mediahttp://dss.collections.imj.org.il/media
In the MediaGlobal Media CoverageBloomberg - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online as Google Joins Israel Museum to Help Scholars" Associated Press - "2000 year old Dead Sea Scrolls go online" CNN International - 7 minute Interview with Yossi Matias CNN.com - "Google Makes 5 Dead Sea Scrolls Searchable" (includes additional TV piece) MSNBC - "Call them the Dead E-Scrolls: Ancient documents go digital" AFP - "Israel Museum, Google put Dead Sea Scrolls online"Country Specific Coverage
Israel:Channel 2 evening news cast - Leading news channel Walla - Leading news website - "The Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online with the help of Google" People and Computers - Professional website " The Israel Museum of Jerusalem and Google have made the Dead Sea Scrolls live online"Ynet - Leading news website - "Dead sea scrolls now online"Ynet (English) - "Dead Sea Scrolls go online"Nana 10 - Popular news website - Dead sea scrolls now online" Haaretz print edition (front page) - "The Dead Sea Scrolls go online after 2,000 years" Haaretz - News website - "Dead Sea scrolls: Now online" Calcalist - Financial website - "The Dead Sea Scrolls go online" Israel Hayom - Daily national paper - "Isaiah's vision - Version 2.0" Mako - Leading news website - "History in High Definition: The Dead Sea Scrolls go online" Jerusalem Post - "Google and Israel Museum publish Dead Sea Scrolls online" TechSlut (blog) HT Mobile - "Dead Sea Scrolls go digital"Haaretz - "Virtual Dead Sea Scrolls get more than a million hits in just one week" (plus Hebrew version)
US:Associated Press - "2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online"
Notable Syndication: MSNBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, Boston Globe, Fox News, USA Today, CBS News, Huffington Post, Newsday, NPR, The Sacramento Bee
Bloomberg - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online as Google Joins Israel Museum to Help Scholars"Notable Syndication: San Francisco Chronicle
ABC News - "Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online" ABC News - (TV item) - "Google and the Israel Museum have posted the Dead Sea Scrolls Online" TIME - "Google Side-Project Update: Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Viewable Online" CNET - "Dead Sea Scrolls come to life on the Web" NPR Blog - "Dead Sea Scrolls Are Now Online" CNN - "Google makes 5 Dead Sea Scrolls searchable" NBC News - "Dead Sea Scrolls Live Online" Forbes - "Google is Digitizing the Dead Sea Scrolls" Gizmodo - "The Google-Powered, Digital Dead Sea Scrolls are a History Buff's Dream" Los Angeles Times - "Dead Sea Scrolls go online, thanks to Google, Israel Museum" Mashable - "Google & The Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online" PC Magazine - "Google, Israel Museum Put Dead Sea Scrolls Online" PC Magazine - "The Dead Sea Scrolls join other artifacts living online" PCWorld.com - "Dead Sea Scrolls Post in Time for Rosh Hashanah" Engadget - "Google puts the Dead Sea Scrolls in the cloud, promises they won't dissolve when you touch them" Wired.com - "Google's Dead Sea Scrolls project: why putting parchment & papyrus in the cloud matters to civilization" VentureBeat - "Google and Israel post 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls online" Popular Science - "Video: The Dead Sea Scrolls are Now Available for Your Online Perusal, Courtesy of Google" SlashGear - "Google digitizes the Dead Sea Scrolls and puts them online" Geek.com - "Google launches the Dead Sea Scrolls online project" TechDigest - "Dead Sea Scrolls brought to life online by Google" Digital Trends - "Dead Sea Scrolls now viewable online thanks to Google" The Next Web - "Google-powered project brings the Dead Sea Scrolls online" Examiner.com - National - "The Dead Sea Scrolls enter the Digital Age" SmartPlanet - "Digitized sea scrolls: oldest biblical manuscripts available online" Voice of America - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online" UPI.com - "Dead Sea Scrolls now online" The Baltimore Sun - "Dead Sea Scrolls: a remarkable look at early Bible" Detroit Free Press - "Dead Sea Scrolls go online for 1st time" History.com - "Unraveling the Dead Sea Scrolls: Six Fascinating Facts" Physorg.com - "2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls go online" The New York Jewish Week - "Dead Sea Scrolls: From Qumran Caves to Museum to the Web" Cleveland Leader - "2000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scrolls Digitized & Now Available Online" The Christian Post - "Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online" The Christian Science Monitor - "Dead Sea Scrolls now available to all online" Voice of America - "Dead Sea Scrolls Go Online"The Washington Post Blog - "Google Takes the Dead Sea Scrolls Online"
The images shown here pertain to four main groups
1. Inscriptions alluding to figures from the Book of Isaiah. Obviously these are few and far between. They include Hezekiah, King of Juda, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and others.
SEAL IMPRESSION "(BELONGING) TO HEZEKIAH (SON OF) AHAZ KING OF JUDAH"
Judah, 8th century BCE, clayCollection of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Peter Lanyi
1:1 The prophecies of Isaiah son of amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah
The images shown here pertain to four main groups
1. Inscriptions alluding to figures from the Book of Isaiah. Obviously these are few and far between. They include Hezekiah, King of Juda, Sennacherib, King of Assyria, and others.
36:1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched against all the fortified towns of Judah and seized them
SENNACHERIB PRISM
Nineveh, Assyria, 691 BCE, baked clayIn this inscription (in cuneiform script), King Sennacherib of Assyria boasts of several military campaigns, amongst these, the war against Judah:
“And Hezekiah, King of Judah, who did not submit to my yoke, I laid siege to 46 of his strong cities, walled forts, and to the countless small villages in their vicinity . . . I besieged them and conquered them.”
He describes the booty he seized and the numbers of captives he took – more than 200,000. Of the siege on King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, he writes:“I made him a prisoner, like a bird in a cage.” Though Jerusalem was not destroyed, Hezekiah was forced to resume paying heavy tribute to Assyria.
Collection of Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum, by Ardon Bar Hama
2. Inscriptions referring to people and official functions with the same names as those appearing in the Book of Isaiah, but clearly not indicating the same people. These attest to the widespread use of the names from the prophets' period found in
authentic, material artifacts that are mentioned in the biblical book.
3:7 The other will there upon protest, "œI will not be a dresser of wounds, With no food or clothing in my own house. You shall not make me chief of a people!"
A REAPER'S PLEAMezad Hashavyahu, 7th century BCE, ink on pottery
A glimpse into the biblical justice system (Exodus 22:25–26) is provided by this Hebrew letter, which contains a reaper's plea to the governor to have his personal property (a cloak) returned. The cloak had been confiscated by an official under the pretext that the reaper did not complete the harvest of an assigned quota. The repetition of various words and phrases suggests that the letter was dictated in a hurry, and the cursive script indicates that it was written by a professional scribe.
Collection of Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
3. Objects and utensils that were in use at the time of the Prophet, the likes of which could have been used by the Prophet himself – for example, cultic objects, jewelry, every-day artifacts and others. There is no doubt that these objects would have been in the Prophet’s
vicinity, and would have provided the material context to his prophecies.
27:9 Assuredly, by this alone Shall Jacob's sin be purged away; This is the only price For removing his guilt: That he make all the altar-stones Like shattered blocks of chalk With no sacred post left standing, Nor any incense altar.
FEMALE FIGURINES
Judah, 8th–6th century BCE, pottery
Such figurines, with pronounced breasts, were found mainly in private dwellings. Usually identified with either the goddess Astarte or the goddess Asherah, they were kept as household amulets to enhance fertility and offer protection during childbirth.
Collections of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem & of Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum, by Meidad Suchowolski
3. Objects and utensils that were in use at the time of the Prophet, the likes of which could have been used by the Prophet himself – for example, cultic objects, jewelry, every-day artifacts and others. There is no doubt that these objects would have been in the Prophet’s
vicinity, and would have provided the material context to his prophecies.
29:11 So that all prophecy has been to you Like the words of a sealed document. If it is handed to one who can read and he is asked to read it, he will say, "œI can't, because it is sealed";
SEALS
Judah and neighboring lands, 8th–6th century BCE, semi-precious stones, bone, silver, bronze and gold
Collections of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem & of Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum
4. Various symbols (mainly animals and plants) which the prophet drew upon metaphorically. These symbols were also prevalent in Ancient Near Eastern art of this period, as the discoveries prove.
1:3 An ox knows its owner, an ass its master's crib: Israel does not know, My people takes no thought."
DONKEY FIGURINE
Achzib, 7th–6th century BCE, pottery
Collection of Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum, by Ardon Bar Hama
4. Various symbols (mainly animals and plants) which the prophet drew upon metaphorically. These symbols were also prevalent in Ancient Near Eastern art of this period, as the discoveries prove.
11:6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard lie down with the kid; The calf, the beast of prey, and the fatlin together, With a little boy to herd them
LEAPING LION CUB AND A RECUMBENT RAM FIGURE
Persian period 6th -4th century BCEThese figures were found in a shrine in Mizpe Hayammim.
Collection of Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Peter Lanyi
Barak Obama in a visit to the new World Trade Center building signed a steel girder with the message
9:9 "œBricks have fallen We'll rebuild with dressed stone; Sycamores have been felled We'll grow cedars instead!
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And Then There Was Nano- The Smallest Bible in the WorldMay 20, 2015-December 31, 2016
On the occasion of the Museum’s 50th anniversary, a new exhibition space in the Shrine of the Book is inaugurated with this display of a cutting-edge version of the Bible – a gilt nano chip the size of a sugar grain, on which the entire Bible is inscribed.
Illustrating the power of nanotechnology, this high-tech miracle was created in the laboratories of Haifa’s Technion Institute by means of a technique recalling stone engraving. The text engraved on the chip needs to be magnified 10,000 times in order to be legible. The exhibition takes the Book of Books on a journey from antiquity to the present – from the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls to the 21st-century Nano Bible.
Dr. Susan HazanDr. Susan [email protected]@gmail.com