Scribes of Cairo Geniza
transcribe easy fragments of ancient texts
Scribes of Cairo Geniza
The website Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, give you a chance to work with others to unlock the secrets of one of the greatest archives of the middle ages.
Hidden for centuries in an attic in Cairo, over 300,000 fragments of pre-modern and medieval Jewish texts—from everyday receipts to biblical works—have yet to be fully deciphered.
The first step of the project, is to sort the fragments by script type and level of difficulty.
Next, we analyze the sorted piles by transcribing the relatively easy fragments, and by finding key phrases that will eventually be used to help decipher the more difficult ones.
This is a collaborative project between many institutions of higher learning (listed below), several great manuscript repositories, and you, the citizens of the world.
Thank you in advance for your contribution.
Click scribesofthecairogeniza.org for more information on how you can volunteer for this incredible project
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