A Testament to Change: Early Scraps of the Bible

[MountainLaurel]

If anyone happens to be in the DC area, this sounds like a great exhibit.

If 40 percent of Americans refuse to believe that humans evolved from earlier hominids, how many will accept that the book we know as the Bible evolved from earlier texts and was not handed down, in toto, by God in its present form?

The fossil evidence for human evolution is permanently on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Hard evidence that the Bible took its present shape over centuries will be on display for the next 11 weeks, from today through Jan. 7, across the Mall at the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

They are rarer than dinosaur bones, these fragments of papyrus and animal skin that tell the Bible's story. With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests.

The Sackler's exhibition, "In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000," is one of the broadest assemblages of this material ever brought together in one place. "It has not happened before, and we will not see its like again in our lives," said guest curator Michelle P. Brown, professor of medieval manuscript studies at the University of London.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001756.html

[bryant69]

1. That does sound like an intresting exhibit.

Wish I were in DC.

Bryant
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[struggle4progress]

2. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=214x92521