Bible Lands Museum Exhibit Traces Jewish Roots of Christianity

Bible Lands Museum

“Many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.’ The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.” (Isaiah 2:3)

An extraordinary exhibit devoted to the history of the Bible called Book of Books was recently unveiled in the Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum.

This refreshing presentation traces the roots of the Bible, stressing its link to Judaism and Christianity, and the Jewish roots of Christianity.

“We’ve put in added effort to make it an equally balanced and important exhibition for both a Jewish audience and the Christian world,” Museum Director Amanda Weiss said. (CBN)

The museum’s curator, Filip Vukosovavic stressed that Judaism and Christianity are essentially one thing—“so interconnected, they cannot be separated.”

He added that they not only come from the same geographical location, the land of Israel, but they share the same theological roots. (JPost)

The Codex Climaci Rescriptus is one of the oldest copies of the Bible. It is a 7th or 8th century Greek manuscript of the New Covenant (New Testament), as well as a 6th century Christian Palestinian Aramaic manuscript of the Tanakh and New Covenant.

The special exhibition is drawn from the Green Collection, the world’s largest private collection of rare Biblical texts and artifacts.

“We have operated our businesses on the Bible, and we have raised our family according to the Bible,” said Steve Green, who is a devout Baptist and the president of the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby retail chain.

“We started with a Bible collection to tell the story of the Bible, which obviously brought us to Israel, and working with the Bible Lands Museum was an exciting opportunity for us to have the exhibit here, sharing the story of the Bible,” he explained.

Included in the exhibit are rare fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Cairo Geniza, and the Septuagint. Also on display are the earliest New Testament Scriptures, original pages from the Gutenberg Bible, and relics from the 19th century.

“I think there is a certain desire amongst Christians to visit Israel, and Jerusalem specifically, and hopefully this exhibit will give them the motivation to come and see the land that Jesus walked,” Green said. (JPost)