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December 12, 2005 - Bible exhibit @ Sackler gallery downtown (D.C.) - GO! I visited the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery downtown (D.C.) this past Saturday afternoon for an art class I am currently taking. What I didn't know was that the Sackler Gallery is putting on an exhibit called "In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000". When I heard my interest was greatly piqued. Suffice to say I spent the next hour and half perusing the vast exhibit with much joy, bewilderment, appreciation, and awe. The exhibit is truly amazing. Never before have such important, rare, and ancient Biblical and apocryphal texts been assembled in a capacity like this. I write this because I want to encourage you to go see it yourselves. Take the family and take friends (ages below like 8 prolly don't recommend - it's very quiet). You will not be disappointed. Because of my faith, it had a great impact on me personally - and I think it may you also. Part of it reaffirmed my belief in the coalescence and passage of Scripture through the ages. Part of it found me inspired and encouraged by some of these authors and scribes who copied and wrote under great persecution. And part of it left me in awe how God has decided to communicate with us through this book we call the Bible. To see the very books of antiquity that contain the very information that I base my life on is a soul-searching affair. I want caution you to know though that this exhibit isn't being put on by Christians or anything. There is definitely a secular aura around the whole exhibit - mostly concerning the idea of the inerrancy of Scripture (the secular idea that the Bible has greatly evolved over the centuries is apparent - the Washington Post review of the exhibit strongly is a proponent of this theory). Either way, these are objections that have been raised for centuries that archeology, textual criticism, and various other academic disciplines have continually refuted. They shouldn't be marginalized by blind faith, but they also shouldn't make us who are believers afraid. Anyways, the exhibit is being displayed until January 7, 2007. I figure the Christmas holidays would be a perfect time to take a nice winter afternoon visit downtown. You could even time it to go see the exhibit and then see that big Christmas tree also. You can find more information and details on the exhibit and the gallery here: "In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000" Highlights of the exhibition include:  |
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