Source: csmonitor.com

‘The Book of Books’ displays 200 of the rarest biblical manuscripts in an illuminating tale of how the world’s most-published book came to be.

This 17th-century illuminated scroll, on loan from Bill Gross, depicts the Biblical story of Esther and is part of the new Book of Books exhibit at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM — Copied by Jewish scribes and Christian monks. Written on everything from tiny silver scrolls to papyrus that turned brittle with time. First published for a mass audience by Gutenberg; now available in 2,800 languages.

These are fragments of the story of how the Bible evolved from the days of ancient Israel to the days of Barnes and Noble.

Now the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem has launched a landmark exhibit tracing that story, drawn largely from the collection of …continue reading at csmonitor.com