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Facsimile reprint of 1836 A New Hieroglyphic Bible for children, $9.99, plus $.83 tax. For mail orders, add $5.20 for shipping and handling . Books are available at the HBU Campus Bookstore and at the Dunham Bible Museum.

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Summer 2013

"Piece of the Past" essay winners
"They Read the Same Bible" - new exhibit on Civil War Bibles
Encomium: A Young Researcher Celebrates the Dunham Bible Museum by Dr. David Davis
Gifts Received
Facts & Figures
In Memoriam: Janet Richardson (1946-2013)

Spring 2013

Meet Francisco the Book Restorer
The Gutenberg-style Printing Press at the Dunham Bible Musuem
The National Treasure at the Dunham Bible Museum (collection of rare Greek New Testaments)
Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs

Fall 2012

New exhibit: Celebrating the Life of Jesus: Three Centuries of Bible Art
The Bounty Bible
Burmese-English Bible Project
Faithful Servant - Doug Sanders

Summer 2012

"Piece of the Past" Essay Winners
Gordon and Diana Lyceum Dedicated
"Unlawful English Scripture! - The Golden Legend
Visit to the American Bible Society

Winter 2012

Picturing the Word: Bible Illustrations of the 15th-16th centuries, Biblia Pauperum
Unique Chinese Bibles donated to Dunham Bible Museum
Thank you, Sally! for student assistant Sally Grimes

Fall 2011

Exhortation to the Study of the Holy Scripture from the 1541 Great Bible
New Acquisitions: Melancthon's 1572 "Chronicon Carionis" and "Criswell Study Bble"
A Scrapbook New Testament by Emily Taylor
Updates to website
KJVs in Texas

Summer 2011

Astronaut Jeff Williams
Houston Genealogical Forum's Bible record transcriptions
Codex Sinaiticus facsimile
"Piece of the Past" essay winners
upcoming Conference KJV@400: A Story of Biblical Proportions

Spring 2011

KJV@400: From Hampton Court, around the Globe, and to the Moon
A Royal Monument of English Literature: How many copies of the 1611 King James Bible Remain?
King James' Translation?
A Heritage of Worship in the Psalms

Fall/Winter 2010

From the Bronze Age to the Space Age
A Bible with Historic Texas Connections (Anson and Mary Jones Bible)

Summer 2010

Production Crew Films at Dunham Bble Museum - film to commemorate 400th Anniversary of King James Bible
New Exhibit Celebrates Geneva Bible
Freedom from Tyranny (Geneva Bible title page)

Spring 2010

HBU acquires the Brake and Hellstern Collections
Donald Brake and John Hellstern
Fragment of Early Bible Text Identified
They Read the Same Bible (exhibit of Civil War Bibles)
A Bible with a Courtly Connection
Houston Genealogical Forum Publishing Family Record Transcriptions
New printing pf Wycliffe Bible available

September 2009

J.S. Bach's Bible on Exhibit
Donations Expand Foreign Bible Collection
"Qirt Evans" Bible

June 2009

Burmese Bible Project
John calvin at 500
Bible Rescued from the Bombings (1682 Dutch Bible)

January-March 2009

Celebrating the Life of Jesus, the Christ: Special Exhibit
Dunhams Help Expand Bible Museum's Collection
Illuminating the Word; An exhibit of prints from The St. John's Bible
Lincoln and the Bible

October - December 2008

An American Soldiers' Bible Exhibit
Can you Help Identify this Window?
Church Pew Donated to Museum

July - September 2008

Celebrating a New Beginning
Dunham Bible Lecture Serries Launched: Drs. Charles Ryrie and Naseeb Shaheen

April - June 2008

Dedication of University Museums in the Morris Cultural Arts Center
The Brake-Hellsternb Collection
Books and Resources
The Designers and Fabricators
A Visual History of the English Bible (by Dr. Brake)

[In 2008, the Dunham Bible Museum News began to be published three times a year rather than quarterly.]

October - December 2007

Annals of the World comes to HBU
Between the Leaves: special exhibit
The Bible's Broad Influence on American Civilization

July - September 2007

A Lone Survivor (New Testament printed in Philadelphia by Francis Bailey in 1780)
Influence of the Bible on Literature
The Pearl of Great Price J.G. Whittier's "The Vaudois Barbe")
Museum's Bible Collection Featured at Houston's First Baptist Church

April - June 2007

Which Bible Version did Pocahontas Know?
Time for the Bible?
A 1625th Anniversary (Jerome's Latin translation)

January - March 2007

Amazing Grace - Coming to a Theater Near You
An Inscription with Important Christian and Patriotic Connections (Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul)
A Timely Illustration
Recent Acquisitions
In Memoriam: President Gerald Ford

October - December 2006

HBU Welcomes New President
Antiquties Collection Given to Bible Museum
Rembrandt's 400 and Bonhoeffer's 100!
Bonhoeffer on Bible Meditation
A Veterans' Day Look at Soldiers Bibles
Folio Bibles Donated to Museum
Dr. Kitto's Bible

July-September 2006

Dear Abby - 1774 (John Adams to his wife)
Astronaut's Widow Visits HBU
450 Years Later - the Scriptural Legacy of a Christian Martyr (Thomas Cranmer)
Monthly Psalm Reading
Cranmer on Reading the Bible

April - June 2006

HBU's Bible Museum - A Legacy and Challenge from president Hodo
1660 King James Bible Comes to Museum
We've Been Asked: What's a Polyglot Bible?
Thomas Scott Refutes The Da Vinci Code and The Gospel of James
Bibles with Connections (Personal histories of 1817 quarto Bible and 1829 Testament)
For Mother's Day: "My Mother's Bible"

January - March 2006

What Language Does God Speak?
Yield to the Word of God (Adoniram Judson)
1806: a Bicentennial Exhibit
Ben Franklin Turns 300!
Museum Joins GHCVB
The Greatest Missionary (Cameron Townsend article)
The Naming of Ivory Soap

October - December 2005

Tyndale Production Cancelled
Christopher Columbus and the Bible
Why a Bible Museum? Catch the Vision
Woodrow Wilson on the Bible in America

July - September 2005

Let There Be Light (William Tyndale's Bible)
William Tyndale Coming to HBU ("Fire for ther Ploughman")
Words or Phrases First Introduced into the English Language in Early English Bible Translations
The Most Important Book in the English Language
The Rest of the Story: The Apollo Prayer League
A Special Group - Our Volunteers: In Their Own Words
Tyndale was the First - But not the Last

April - June 2005

The Dunham Family Bible in America Museum
The Bible in Space
Red Letter Edition
We Were Asked (Gutenberg's Bible in inaugurations, "The Soldiers Prayer Book" or "Deck of Cards")
A Self-Interpreting Bible (John Brown)
Using Scripture to Understand Scripture
The Pony Express Bible
1837 Children's Bible for Sale

January - March 2005