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The Brooklyn Museum has received a $5 million gift from the Leon Levy Foundation to endow the position of director, the museum is expected to announce on Tuesday. The gift is the largest the museum has received from a donor who was not a member of its board of trustees. Arnold L. Lehman, the director of the museum since 1997, will become, formally, the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum.

For the first time, the 2,000-year-old, world-famous manuscripts are accessible to anyone in the world with a computer.

Following criticism that only a small circle of scholars could access the Dead Sea Scrolls , Israel’s national museum and Google teamed up to the put the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century online.

Five of the most important scrolls, including the biblical Book of Isaiah, the manuscript known as the Temple Scroll, and three others have been digitized.