Greg Bearman
Greg is a Principal Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. In 1993, he began work on applications of modern imaging technology to archeological objects, including texts, frescoes and ostraca. Along with his assistant, Sheila, he has made three field campaigns to Jerusalem to image the Dead Sea Scrolls and provide permanent tools in Israel for text scholars. He wrote some of the seminal early papers on the use of spectral imaging for art, archeology and biology. Along with his Caltech collaborators, he is the inventor of a new approach to fluorescence microscopy that won a major international technology award.
Dead Sea Scrolls:
Up Close and Personal
- Sunday 4:00 PM–5:15 PM Emerald Bay 1
Sixty ears after their discovery, the Dead Sea Scrolls offer a fascinating look at the text of most of the Biblical books at the time the canon was being fixed. Learn about the modern imaging technology being used on some of the most deteriorated scrolls and gain some insight into the working with the DSS community
