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Steven Booras received his bachelor's degree in Business Management with minors in Accounting, Economics, and Statistics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Steve joined (coming from WordPerfect Corp.) the staff of the Maxwell Institute in 1993 as special projects manager and manager of the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library project.

Steve was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area in Northern California. He married Susan Lindsey in 1965 and they have six children and 21 grandchildren.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Popol Vuh Electronic Database [2005-7]
• Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library — Non-Biblical Scrolls [1993-2007]
• Herculaneum Scrolls, Naples, Italy (with Roger Macfarlane) [1999-2004]
• Coptic papyri at the Chester Beatty Library (with John Gee) [2003]
• Lachish Ostraca at the British Museum (with Dana Pike) [2002]
• Oxyrhynchus Papyrus, Oxford (with Roger Macfarlane and Dirk Obbink) [2001]
• Sloan Manuscript of Canterbury Tales, British Library (with Paul Thomas, BYU) [2001]
• Vatican Syriac Manuscripts (with Kristian Heal, Carl Griffin, and E. Jan Wilson) [2000]
• Psalms of Solomon Manuscript, Biblioteca Casanatense (with Prof. Robert Wright) [1999]
• Petra Church Scrolls, Amman, Jordan (with Prof. Gene Ware) [1998]
• Bonampak Mayan Murals (with Stephen Houston etc) [1995]

Selected Publications

"Update Report on the Use of Multi-spectral Images of Herculaneum Papyri", Roger Macfarlane, Steven W. Booras, Agatha Antoni, at the XXIV International Congress of Papyrology, August, 2004, Helsinki, Finland. (Proceedings forthcoming, 2007)

"Imaging the Past: Recent Applications of Multispectral Imaging Technology", Douglas M. Chabries, Steven W. Booras, Gregory H. Bearman, Antiquity, (London), Vol. 77: Number 296, June, 2003.

"Multispectral Imaging Technology and the Herculaneum Scrolls", Proceedings of Il Futturo Della Memoria, Associazione Italiana Biblioteche, Biblioteca Nazionali Di Napoli, Italia, Sezione Campania, Palazzo Reale, 18 aprile 2002. By Steven W. Booras, translated by Lucia Marinelli.

"Petra Papyri", ACOR Newsletter, American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan, Vol. 13.1 - Summer 2001, p. 12.

"Imaging the Herculaneum Scrolls", in Proceedings of the 2001 PICS Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The Society for Imaging Science and Technology, April 22-25, 2001, (Virginia, IS&T) 2001, by Steven W. Booras and Douglas M. Chabries, p. 215-218.

"Multispectral Imaging of the Herculaneum Papyri", in Cronache Ercolanes, Cerc 29, 1999, (Naples, Italy), Steven W. Booras and David R. Seely, p, 95-100.

"The Dead Sea Scroll CD-ROM Database Project," Donald W. Parry and Steven W. Booras, in Current Research and Technological Developments: Proceedings of the Conference on the Judaean Desert Scrolls, Jerusalem, April 30, 1995. Edited by Donald W. Parry and Stephen D. Ricks, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996), p. 240-250.