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This entry is NOT about a trip in the White Van named “Vanna White”. It is about visiting a local exhibit in Atlanta that will close soon and move to the Vatican in Italy.
I had seen a newspaper advertisement for an exhibit called “Passages”. The website for the exhibit is http://explorepassages.com. The newspaper article gave the dates of the exhibit in Atlanta and I knew that the closing date was not far away. If I wanted to go see it, I should go soon.
The exhibit has many artifacts about the Bible and Torah and the history of the scrolls and their translations into what we know today. My friend, Jean, and I visited and found it very interesting and enlightening. I wasn’t allowed to take any pictures, but the staff did give us an example of what a document would look like from an early printing press. I’ve included those documents as pictures at the bottom. Also, there was a portion of the exhibit where you could copy the text like scribes used to do. I’ve included those at the bottom also.
I read on the webpage that the exhibit is scheduled for Atlanta, and in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican in Italy. I had wanted to see it for some time, but – I had not taken the time to do it. I happened to shop at Hobby Lobby for a picture frame and discount coupons for the exhibit was available at the register. I picked up two of them.
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Here is some text from their web site:
152 rare biblical texts and artifacts showcase the common biblical history of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and Jewish faiths and the tens of thousands of believers who have died to access, preserve, translate and read them throughout the centuries, including:
Verbum Domini Highlights:
• Codex Climaci Rescriptus—one of the earliest-surviving, near-complete Bibles containing
the most extensive early biblical texts in Jesus’ household language of Palestinian Aramaic
• The Jeselsohn Stone or Gabriel’s revelation, a three foot tall, 150 pound sandstone tablet
discovered near the Dead Sea in Jordan containing 87 lines of first century BCE Hebrew
text
• The Blood and Body of Christ Being Real and Present in the Sacrament, a manuscript
ascribed to Thomas More from 1534—written in Latin and containing numerous references
to Scripture and the Roman Catholic teaching of transubstantiation
• Richard Rolle’s Psalms, Canticles and Commentary—the earliest, most extensive
surviving manuscript of the translation and commentary of Psalms and the Canticles in
Middle English, composed 40 years before Wycliffe’s vernacular translation of Scripture
• Hagia Sophia Lectionary, a mid-11th century manuscript that contains Scripture readings
alongside a list of ceremonies from the great Church of Hagia Sophia, the seat of the
Eastern Orthodox Church and the place where the emperor worshiped

The exhibit staff gave me this to use as a scribe demonstration

The exhibit staff gave me this to use as a scribe demonstration

A member of the staff gave me this as a demonstration of what a scribe would copy.

A member of the staff gave me this as a demonstration of what a scribe would copy.

There was a replica printing press and the staff gave me this as a sample of the press.

There was a replica printing press and the staff gave me this as a sample of the press.

There was a replica printing press and the staff gave me this as a sample of the press.

There was a replica printing press and the staff gave me this as a sample of the press.

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