Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center Contributes to Photographic Preservation of Dead Sea Photos

With the completion of its latest photographic task, the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center in Claremont, California, now has the world’s largest collection of Dead Sea Scroll photographs stored in one place. In January 1992, the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem invited the center’s photographic team, Bruce and Ken Zuckerman and Stephen A. Reed, to do some work at this major Dead Sea Scroll archive. During their visit, the team made 4,000 high resolution photos, principally copies of the original Dead Sea Scroll negatives (including some fragile glass plates), most of which had never been copied before. They also […]