Editing Dead Sea Scrolls (section)

====''A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls'' (1991)====
In 1991, researchers at [[Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion|Hebrew Union College]] in [[Cincinnati]], Ohio, Ben Zion Wacholder and [[Martin Abegg]], announced the creation of a computer program that used previously published scrolls to reconstruct the unpublished texts.<ref>{{citation |url=http://huc.edu/news/article/2011/huc-jir-mourns-dr-ben-zion-wacholder-freehof-professor-emeritus-talmud-and |title=HUC-JIR Mourns Dr. Ben Zion Wacholder |publisher=Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion |date=31 March 2011 |access-date=17 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118003723/http://huc.edu/news/article/2011/huc-jir-mourns-dr-ben-zion-wacholder-freehof-professor-emeritus-talmud-and |archive-date=18 November 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Officials at the [[Huntington Library]] in [[San Marino, California]], led by head librarian [[William Andrew Moffett]], announced that they would allow researchers unrestricted access to the library's complete set of photographs of the scrolls. In the fall of that year, Wacholder published 17 documents that had been reconstructed in 1988 from a [[Concordance (publishing)|concordance]] and had come into the hands of scholars outside of the international team; in the same month, there occurred the discovery and publication of a complete set of facsimiles of the Cave 4 materials at the Huntington Library. Thereafter, the officials of the IAA agreed to lift their long-standing restrictions on the use of the scrolls.<ref name="britan">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/154274/Dead-Sea-Scrolls|title=Dead Sea Scrolls|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=26 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412153300/https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/154274/Dead-Sea-Scrolls|archive-date=12 April 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>