For the first time ever in Israel, more than 200 of the rarest and most important Biblical manuscripts and texts will be displayed in Israel in an historic exhibition, titled “The Book of Books”, at the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem.

Displaying fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint, the earliest New Testament Scriptures, exquisite illuminated manuscripts, rare fragments from the Cairo Geniza and original pages from the Gutenberg Bible, this exhibition will trace the Jewish roots of Christianity and the dissemination of monotheistic faith.

The Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem, in cooperation with Verbum Domini, is proud to host this exhibition which will be in Israel before heading to the Vatican and afterwards to Washington D.C, where it will be permanently displayed in a museum which is being built next to the Smithsonian primarily for the purpose of hosting these rare texts and manuscripts.

“It is extremely fitting that this exhibition and these texts will be unveiled for the first time ever in Jerusalem, mere meters from where many of the events contained in the Bible took place,” said Amanda Weiss, Director of the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem. “Please join us for the rarest of glimpses into the historicity and transition of the Bible in the heart of the Biblical landscape. The exhibition will be a unique experience to be so close to some of the rarest and most historic texts which helped shape humanity.”