DEAD SEA SCROLLS & SECOND TEMPLE JEWISH SOURCES
Manuscript collections and scholarly resources for examining the textual, historical, and religious environment of Judaism during the Second Temple period.
Resources are classified according to their evidentiary function. Inclusion in The Apostolic Record Research Library does not constitute endorsement of a particular reconstruction of Second Temple Judaism, sectarian identification, textual theory, theological interpretation, or institutional position.
LEON LEVY DEAD SEA SCROLLS DIGITAL LIBRARY
PRIMARY SOURCE · MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE
The Israel Antiquities Authority's Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library provides access to thousands of scroll fragments through high-resolution spectral imagery, including biblical, sectarian, legal, and documentary texts from the Judean Desert. The archive permits direct examination of manuscript evidence by site, language, content, and document identification.
ORION CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
SCHOLARLY RESEARCH · DEAD SEA SCROLLS
The Orion Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem supports research on the Dead Sea Scrolls and associated literature of the Second Temple period. Its online resources include bibliographic material, research tools, scholarly information, and resources for the study of the scrolls in their Jewish historical context.
SEFARIA — SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD TEXTS
PRIMARY TEXTS · JEWISH LITERATURE
Sefaria provides digital access to Jewish texts relevant to the Second Temple and early post-Temple worlds, including works associated with Josephus, Philo, and other textual traditions useful for examining Jewish history, interpretation, law, and religious thought surrounding the first century.
PERSEUS DIGITAL LIBRARY — JOSEPHUS, THE JEWISH WAR
PRIMARY TEXT · SECOND TEMPLE HISTORY
The Perseus Digital Library provides a searchable English edition of Flavius Josephus’s The Jewish War, a major primary literary source for the political environment of late Second Temple Judaism, the Jewish revolt against Rome, the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 CE, and the institutions, movements, conflicts, and personalities of first-century Judea.