Musée Qumran- & Bible Exhibition Sylt

Welcome to the Bible Exhibition Sylt

1. Introduction – The Bible

2. The history of writing

3. The transmission of the Old Testament

The most important manuscripts of the Old Testament

4. The discoveries at Qumran & the famous Dead Sea Scrolls

The digital Qumran library

5. a. The transmission of the New Testament

P 72 - Peter's letters on papyrus ca. 200 AD

5. b. The treasure from Saint Catherine’s Monastery

Codex Sinaiticus

6. The ornamented Bibles from Medieval Times

Bible of Patricius Leo, Greek - 9th / 10th century AD, one of the treasures from the Vatican, Bible of Queen Christina of Sweden

The Golden Gospel book of Echternach

The Gospel Book of Henry the Lion - Evangeliarium Heinrici Leonis - around 1180 AD, from the Guelph Treasure

Pearl Bible 13th century Paris

Vulgata - Bible Handbook around 1230/40

Wenceslas Bible around 1390

The Ottheinrich Bible: the first illustrated New Testament in German language ca.1425 / 30

The Bible of the Duke of Urbino; 1476 Florence, the most beautiful Bible from the Vatican Library

The Golden Picture Bible

7. a. The invention of the letterpress

Gutenbergbible, 1452-1455, State Library Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin

Gutenbergbible, 1452-1455 Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris

7. b. The German Bibles before Luther

Koberger Bible, 1483 Nuremberg, Germany

7. c. The Bible translation of Martin Luther

The first Greek New Testament

September 1522, The New Testament German, Luther's Masterpiece

Biblia Deutsch First Luther Bible, 1524 Nuremberg

Martin Luther first entire Bible, 1534 Wittenberg

7d The Bible in Switzerland & the Anabaptists

7e Emser, Dietenberger & Eck

Eck Bible 1537, Catholic Counter-Bible

8. The translation and distribution of the Bible

9. Everything around the Bible – curiosities and world sensations

The world's smallest Bible: Mini King James Bible, printed in Glasgow (England) 1911 on the occasion of the coronation of George V.

The Nano Bible

10. The Bible in Judaism