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# Dead Sea Scrolls

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# Dead Sea Scrolls corpus in Text-Fabric

This repo is a research environment for the study of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
You can run your own programs off-line, and publish your work in online notebooks.

Corpus
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This repo contains transcriptions of biblical and
non-biblical scrolls based on the data files of
Martin Abegg.

See also
[about](docs/about.md)
and
[transcription](docs/transcription.md).

Software
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The main processing tool is [Text-Fabric](https://github.com/annotation/text-fabric/).
It is instrumental to
turn the analysis of ancient data into computing narratives.

The ecosystem is Python and Jupyter notebooks.

Getting started
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Start with the
[tutorial](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/annotation/tutorials/blob/master/dss/start.ipynb).

Authors
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This repo is joint work of

*   [Jarod Jacobs](https://warnerpacific.academia.edu/JarodJacobs)
    at 
    [Warner Pacific College](http://www.warnerpacific.edu)
*   [Martijn Naaijer](https://vu-nl.academia.edu/MartijnNaaijer)
    at 
    [Eep Talstra Center for Bible and Computer](http://etcbc.nl)
*   [Dirk Roorda](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirkroorda/) at
    [DANS](https://www.dans.knaw.nl)

### Acknowledgements

* [Martin Abegg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Abegg)
  for providing his data files to us;

**N.B.:** Releases of this repo have been archived at
the
[Software Heritage Archive](https://www.softwareheritage.org)
and
[Zenodo](https://zenodo.org).
Click the badges to be taken to the archives. There you find ways to cite this work.

Status
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This is **work in progress**.
We will collect feedback for quite some time before we bump the version to 1.0 or higher.

*   2019-06-11 Release 0.6, fixed the fact that the dotless shin was represented as sin, spotted by Oliver Glanz
*   2019-05-20 Release 0.5,
    new
    [tests](https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/etcbc/dss/blob/master/programs/checks.ipynb).
*   2019-05-09 Release 0.4.
*   2019-05-08 Release 0.3.
*   2019-05-05 Release 0.2.