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From Script to Scripture

From Script to Scripture: The History of the Bible

Writing began with pictures known as pictographs. These images or shapes represented concepts or ideas, not only the object they portrayed. This combination would later illustrate both concepts or ideograms and sounds or phonograms. The Egyptians developed a system of symbols and art known as hieroglyphics; this system became the basis for their language. The method has been in use for thousands of years. Our alphabet evolved from three main languages: Egyptian hieroglyphics, Phoenician and Greek, to create the Latin alphabet we use today. The Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic languages would preserve the Word of God in many different media such as papyrus, vellum, and parchment through the Dark Ages to be translated into Greman, French, and English and later printed on the Gutenberg Press to be disseminated throughout the European countries.

In various times, Reformation groups surfaced, and they would rediscover the Scriptures. These Reformers would change the world by translating the Bible into their local languages. Introducing God's Word to the printing press started a liturgical fire that could not be quenched to this day. This exhibit will display written works from the 13th century A.D through the European Reformation, including works from Martin Luther, William Tyndale, and Henry VIII.

We will also be exhibiting works from the Counter-Reformation, including Ignatius of Loyola, Thomas Rhandi, and many more. The exhibit will continue with books spanning from European Protestants who fled to America to escape persecution to the American Reformers that started our country on the path to religious freedom. Some of these works include authors like John Locke, Cotton Mather, and Jonathan Edwards.


Please click on the link below for a short tour (28-34 mins) of Script to Scripture.

It Is Written | Ancient Wisdom, Present Power - Part 1 (28 mins)

360 Exhibit Tour | From Script to Scripture: The History of the Bible (34 mins)


Click on the links below for more a little information on the following books:

95 Theses

King James Bible

Breeches Bible

Olivétan Bible