A public edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Read the agreed Hebrew and Aramaic wording, with translations. When someone proposes a different reading, the reason stays visible, and the change enters the edition only after review. For the photographs, each manuscript sends you to the library that published them.
קול קורא במדבר
Isaiah 40:3, as it appears among the Isaiah copies from Qumran.
What you will be able to do
Come and read without signing in. Sit with the Hebrew or Aramaic and a translation. See why a word was read one way and not another.
When proposing a change is open, you will sign in with a free GitHub account, the same kind of account many shared writing projects use. You mark a word, give your reading and a short reason, and others can answer you. Nothing enters the public text until it has been reviewed.
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Reader
No account. The public text, translations, links to the photographs at their libraries, and the record of every proposed change.
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Contributor
Suggest a better reading, or comment on someone else's. Credit accrues when your work is accepted.
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Peer reviewer
Trusted readers, either by a record of accepted work or by academic standing. They accept a proposal or send it back. Two reviewers must agree before a contributor's change becomes part of the edition.
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Editor
The small group that keeps the edition. They can act in an emergency, and they confirm academic standing for reviewers.
Kept in the open
The wording of the edition is public, with a history you can follow. We do not keep the photographs here. Those remain with the Israel Antiquities Authority and the other libraries that published them. Each manuscript page will send you there.