“We have one of the largest collections of Bible artifacts in the world,” Zeiss said. “We’ll have from 500 to 700 [of them] on display at all times.” The museum will contain some 40,000 biblical artifacts (collected by the family of Steve Green, the president of Hobby Lobby).
LZ: Set to open in November 2017, a compelling new presentation of the Bible and its history will delight tourists in the nation’s capital. The Museum of the Bible will open to the public on November 17, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
LifeZette took a pre-opening hard-hat tour this week of the still-under-construction building.
“Certainly this is a pivotal time, I think, in humanity … [The Bible] is one common denominator that we can share with all people,” Tony Zeiss, executive director of the museum, told LifeZette.
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COOL!
I hear it even has a copy of the Bible autographed by the author.
…Um, make that “authors”.
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What version of the Bible will they use? The originals were written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
Hardly anyone in Israel spoke more than a few words of Greek.The great historian Flavius Josephus tried to learn greek for 30 years and was not fluent enough to speak it in public.
Wow, I can’t believe that would be allowed in D.C.
Won’t that make all the dems claim it’s a hostile environment?
St. Jerome translated original text written in Aramaic into Latin around 400 BC at the request of Gregory the Great so as to standardize Church teachings. All translations to English are based on that great work. St. Jerome spent some years learning Aramaic to he could master the task.
@ Extirpates. All of them. Yes the language changed but the word is still the same after all these years, The Holy Spirit will help you understand what you do not understand.
Aramaic was not a written language, only passed on verbally,it was the language Jesus spoke. Hebrew was the written language of the Jews and the 1st five books of the Holy Bible known as the Torah by Jews is written in Hebrew. The Epistles of Paul are the Earliest works of the New Testament written in Greek. The Gospels were written about 300 years A.D. in a variety of languages including Latin, Greek and Hebrew.