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Actor James Franco to publish poetry collection in 2014 Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:58 PM PST Franco poses at his art exhibit 'Rebel' in Los Angeles on May 12, 2012. — AFP pic LOS ANGELES, Dec 19 — James Franco, he of leading roles in Milk, 127 Hours, Pineapple Express, and Spider-Man 3, has penned an agreement to publish a book of poetry in April 2014. The actor is an MFA graduate from both Columbia University and Warren Wilson College, having studied writing and poetry at a number of other East Coast institutions. The collection's title, Directing Herbert White, refers to a 2010 short written and directed by Franco, based as it was on a poem by Frank Bidart. Franco's debut novel, Palo Alto: Stories, was published in 2010. November 2012 saw the release of Strongest of the Litter, a pocketbook of poetry. — AFP/Relaxnews

Dead Sea scrolls go online Posted: 18 Dec 2012 03:29 PM PST A screen capture of the website shows an image of the Dead Sea Scrolls. JERUSALEM, Dec 19 — Thousands of images from the Dead Sea scrolls, which date back more than two millennia, were yesterday made available to the world on a joint Israel Antiquities Authority and Google website. The new website, www.deadseascrolls.org.il, aims to make "the most important archaeological finds of the 20th century accessible to both scholars and the general public," an IAA statement said. Using technology developed for NASA, the website offers high-resolution images of the ancient scrolls along with an advanced search engine. The IAA is in the process of uploading images of the 900 biblical and other manuscripts, comprising some 30,000 fragments, which were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in the Qumran caves above the Dead Sea and photographed in their entirety with infra-red technology in the 1950s. The parchment and papyrus scrolls contain Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic script, and include several of the earliest-known texts from the Bible, including the oldest surviving copy of the Ten Commandments. The oldest of the documents dates to the third century BC and the most recent to about 70 AD, when Roman troops destroyed the Second Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The artefacts are housed at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where the larger pieces are shown at the dimly lit Shrine of the Book on a rotational basis in order to minimise damage from exposure. When not on show, they are kept in a dark, climate-controlled storeroom in conditions similar to those in the Qumran caves, where the humidity, temperature and darkness preserved the scrolls for two millennia. — AFP/Relaxnews

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