340-Year-Old Bible Found by School Teacher in a Wisconsin Church (Video Link)
Timothy Shoup, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, sent images of it to Concordia Seminary Library in St. Louis where researchers authenticated the Bible. Lyle Buettner of Concordia Seminary Library said that there are only about 40 documented copies of the Bible. The text in the Bible is hand illustrated. Buettner told WLUK-TV: "Each time I see an illustration like this, I just think of how beautiful it looks and how much of a labor of love it must have been for the person who actually drew it."
Reverend Shoup told the Associated Press that the nearly 150-year-old church does not know how it came to be in possession of the Bible. "We don't know how it got into the safe. We've been asking some of our elderly folks and people in the nursing home and nobody seems to remember."
The bible was printed in 1670 in Germany and has 1,500 pages. It is in excellent condition.
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Post a CommentWow, that's interesting. Good work!