The Dead Sea Scrolls in America

from http://www.deadseascrollstoamerica.com/

What is being hailed as the single greatest traveling exhibition touring America today will be on display in North Carolina. Some of the rarest artifacts and earliest Biblical manuscripts from around the world will visit North Carolina from Jan 14, 2005 thru February 27. The exhibit will present a display of the History of Scripture from Antiquity to Modern America, highlighting the importance Dead Sea Scrolls to the founding fathers.

This awe-inspiring collection of artifacts, manuscripts and Bibles comes together to tell the story of the complete history of the Bible.

MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS

• Biblical as well as historically important non-biblical Dead Sea Scroll Fragments
• Four (4) fragments from a Greek Septuagint from the Book of Exodus on papyrus, circa 350A.D.Fragment 1: The New Stone TabletsFragment 2: The Tabernacle (a bifolium)Fragment 3: The PassoverFragment 4: The Plague of Locusts
• The earliest witness to Paul's Epistle to the Colossians, on papyrus, in Coptic, circa 275 A.D.
• The "Gospel of James" fragment in Coptic, colophon leaf, circa 4th Century A.D.
• A "Gnostic" Creation Story in Coptic, on papyrus, circa 4th Century A.D.
• An ornamental initial from a religious text, on papyrus, in Greek, circa 4th Century A.D.
• An interlinear correction on a tiny (approx 32 x 20mm) Greek fragment from Exodus from a Septuagint on papyrus, circa 350AD.
• Four (4) leaves from a 10th Century Greek Gospel Book.
• Five (5) leaves from a 13th Century Parisian Bible.
• Four (4) leaves from a 13th Century Psalter.• Medieval Yemenite Torah Scroll
• Two Mesopotamian clay pictographs with images and numeration on both sides, circa 3000 B.C.; One with a Biblical reference to Erech, son of Nimrod (Genesis 10).
• Other fine examples of Sumerian and Akkadian Cuneiform.
• Examples of The Egyptian Book of the Dead (circa 1000-100 BC);
• Two ancient Christian Letters on papyrus (one sealed) (circa 3rd/4th Century AD);
• A fragment of Homer's Iliad on papyrus (3rd Century AD).
• A 15th Century Ethiopian painting of Saint Mark writing his Gospel.
• A gospel book parchment fragment in Coptic circa 4th-6th Century AD;
• The Magna Carta, on vellum, circa 1300 A.D. (first two weeks only)
  

EARLY PRINTED BIBLES

• Gutenberg Bible Leaf from Isaiah, 1455
• The 1519 Erasmus Greek Latin New Testament
• The Luther Bible of 1536
• A Tyndale 1526 facsimile (1862) New Testament
• Tyndale "Matthew's" Bible of 1549
• The Coverdale "Great Bible" of 1539 with Second Edition of 1541
• Tyndale New Testament 1553
• Tyndale's Wicked Mammon
• "Geneva" Bible of 1560
• Cassiodoro de Reina First Spanish Bible of 1569
• Douai-Rheims (Catholic English) Bible of 1582 & 1609-10
• Queen Elizabeth's "Bishops' Bible" of 1568
• The first edition King James Bible of 1611, grand pulpit folio
• All five folio editions of the King James Bible (1611, 1613, 1617, 1634, 1640/39)
• First Printed Edition of a Wyclif New Testament (1731)
• A 16th Century folio of Foxe's Book of Martyrs

AMERICAN BIBLES & AMERICANA

• The Eliot Indian Bible, 1663
• The Christopher Saur Lutheran German Bible, 1743
• The first English Bible in America: The "Bible of the Revolution" printed in 1782 by Robert Aitken
• The first America Catholic Bible, 1790
• The first American "Family Bibles" - Collins, Thomas, and Brown.
• The first American Hebrew Bible, 1814
• The first American Bible printed by a woman, 1808

Plus Much, Much More:-The 1777 "Dunlap" Broadside of the Declaration of Independence-The first pamphlet of the Constitution-The First Printing of the Bill of Rights

Go to http://www.deadseascrollstoamerica.com/ for more details - mabye I'll see you there!