Publications
The Pilgrim Fathers, originally printed in 1830 for “Sabbath school Libraries” has been reprinted by the Dunham Bible Museum for the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims coming to America. The Pilgrim Fathers provides brief inspirational biographies of four of the Pilgrims or Puritan settlers – John Robinson, John Carver, Edward Winslow, and John Winthrop. Available in the Museum gift store for $10. For mail orders, add $2.90 for tax and shipping. |
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. |
| Booklets, illustrated in full color, are available for these special exhibits from the Dunham Bible Museum’s collection. Each booklet is $4.00, which includes tax. By mail, please add $2 for shipping and handling. | |
| God’s Word Endures Forever: Martin Luther & the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation
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Renaissance of the Bible: 500th Anniversary of Erasmus’ Greek Text, the Foundation for Reformation
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| They Read the Same Bible: Bibles of the American Civil War
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The Bible and the American Revolution
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Dunham Bible Museum News
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- HBU’s Bible Museum turns 25!
- Museum’s Valuable Assets
- The Piece of the Past 2022
- A Film Crew Comes to HBU
- 500th Anniversary of Luther’s translation of the New Testament into German
- Dr. Jennifer McNutt to lecture on “The Bible of the Reformation”
- New exhibit “Celebrating the Life of Jesus the Christ”
- CSNTM visits the Dunham Bible Museum
- Dunham Bible Museum Lectures for 2021-2022 – on Tanakh and Reformation Bibles
- Owners of early New Testament Greek Texts in collection
- Dunham Bible Museum Friends
- Tanakh Exhibit
- Piece of the Past essay contest, 2021 winners
- An Honor Graduate
- A Monument to God’s Deliverance: 17th century scroll of Esther
- Advice for reading the Scriptures, from the first printed English Bible, 1535
- Pilgrim William Brewster – Diplomat, Publisher, Preacher
- The Living Word – on the history, influence and impact of the Bible
- A Friend Missed
- The Pilgrim Fathers
- The Pilgrim’s Governor – William Bradford
- The Mayflower Compact and the Constitution
- Hitchcock’s Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible/Thomas Nast
- One Small Candle
- The Pilgrim Fathers
- Luther’s German New Testament
- Why we Can trust the Bible
- Early Map of Jerusalem
- New Testament in Mankanya
- John Q. Adams’ Advice to His Son
- Bible Teaches How to Read History
- Bibles with Connections
- New Displays on St. John’s and Gutenberg Bibles
- Preserving the World’s Rares Books
- Special Gifts at the Dunham Bible Museum
- A Special Assistant
- 2019 Piece of the Past Winners
- A Baskett Case
- Ethiopian Awi Bible in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Sloan
- Go Figure
- The World of Jesus
- Celebrating The Saint John’s Bible
- 1586 Actes and Monuments
- “The God Who Speaks”
- Sternhold-Hopkins Psalms
- Augustus Toplady Hymnal
- King James Bible title page
- 1516 Psalter from Genoa
- Trinity Lutheran, Klein Donates Large Print Bibles
- A Special Volunteer at the Bible Museum
- Piece of the Past, 2018
- Bach’s Bible Comes to the Dunham Bible Museum
- Women and the Bible
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Bible
- Helen Keller Given Bible by the American Bible Society
- October 31, 2017 – 500th Anniversary of the Reformation with Dr. Paul Maier
- God’s Word Endures Forever: The Gun-Wad Bible and Luther’s Galatians
- Luther, Tyndale, and the English Bible
- Dos-a-dos added to the Collection
- 1st edition 1539 Taverner’s now in the Dunham Bible Museum
- An Exhortacion to the Diligent Studye of the Holy Scripture Gathered out of the Bible
- Update on The St. John’s Bible
- 2017 and a 500th Anniversary!
- Sacred Songs & Solos
- 200 Years of the American Bible Society
- St. John’s Bible, Volume 1: The Pentateuch
- Bellaire Central Baptist Church pulpit donated
- Exhibit booklet on Renaissance of the Bible and Erasmus’ Greek text
- First English edition of Erasmus’ Paraphrases
- Newells donate McKinney manuscript
- 500th Anniversary of Erasmus’ Greek New Testament
- McKinney Hymn discovered
- 2 volumes of St. John’s Bible donated
- Archie and Linda Dunham’s Special Gift
- Chamberlin Donates Bible Collection to Dunham Bible Museum
- Harpers 1846 Illuminated Bible
- Erasmus’ Bible – notice of Special exhibit and Conference
- A Real Page-Turner
- Student Assistants at the Museum
- Wenceslas IV Bible comes to HBU
- One of the Most Extraordinary Undertakings of Our Time – the St. John’s Bible
- The Heaven’s Declare the Glory of God
- Dunham Bible Museum receives “Power of the Word” award
- Piece of the Past 2015
- Poems between old Bible leaves
- Year of The St. John’s Bible
- Where is the Original Bible?
- Burkitt’s Prayer before reading Scriptures
- William Edgar – “Heaven in a Nightclub”
- Bible in Hawaiian
- Charles Thomson: American Patriot and Bible Translator
- Poem: “How Readest Thou?”
- Upcoming events
- Israel in Egypt
- Refo 500
- St. John’s Bible
- Piece of the Past Essay Winners
- Socket Stones arrive at Museum
- Jane Grey’s letter in her Greek New Testament
- Cuneiform manuscript
- Explore the Story of the First English Bibles on Location in England
- Top Archaeological Find in New Exhibit
- Merrymount Bibles Beckon Visitors
- Arabic Bible Added to the Collection
- Historic Geneva Bible Presented to Dunham Bible Museum
- Thumb Bibles and Miniature Books
- Early English Bible History tour planned
- Archaeology Exhibit and Conference for 2014
- In Memoriam – Gordon Severance
- And the Winner is – Piece of the Past Essays
- They Read the Same Bible
- Encomium: A Young Researcher Celebrates the Dunham Bible Museum, Dr. David Davis
- Francisco the Book Restorer
- Gutenberg-Style Printing Press at the Dunham Bible Museum, Dr. John Hellstern
- The National Treasure at the Dunham Bible Museum. Dr. Donald Brake
- Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs
- New exhibit: Celebrating the Life of Jesus: Three Centuries of Bible Art
- The Bounty Bible
- Burmese-English Bible Project
- Faithful Servant – Doug Sanders
- “Piece of the Past” Essay Winners
- Gordon and Diana Severance Lyceum Dedicated
- “Unlawful English Scripture! – The Golden Legend
- Visit to the American Bible Society
- 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
- Exhortation to the Study of the Holy Scripture from the 1541 Great Bible
- New Acquisitions: Melanchthon’s 1572 “Chronicon Carionis” and “Criswell Study Bible”
- A Scrapbook New Testament by Emily Taylor
- Updates to website
- KJVs in Texas
- 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
- 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
- From the Bronze Age to the Space Age
- A Bible with Historic Texas Connections (Anson and Mary Jones Bible)
- Production Crew Films at Dunham Bible Museum – film to commemorate 400th Anniversary of King James Bible
- New Exhibit Celebrates Geneva Bible
- Freedom from Tyranny (Geneva Bible title page)
- HBU acquires the Brake-Hellstern Collection
- 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 of Wycliffe Bible available
- J.S. Bach’s Bible on Exhibit
- Donations Expand Foreign Bible Collection
- “Quirt Evans” Bible
- Burmese Bible Project
- John Calvin at 500
- Bible Rescued from the Bombings (1682 Dutch Bible)
- 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
- An American Soldiers’ Bible Exhibit
- Can you Help Identify this Window?
- Church Pew Donated to Museum
- Celebrating a New Beginning
- Dunham Bible Lecture Serries Launched: Drs. Charles Ryrie and Naseeb Shaheen
- Dedication of University Museums in the Morris Cultural Arts Center
- Brake-Hellstern 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
- 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
- Which Bible Version did Pocahontas Know?
- Time for the Bible?
- A 1625th Anniversary (Jerome’s Latin translation)
- 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
- HBU Welcomes New President
- Antiquities 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 Bible
- 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
- 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”
- 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
- Tyndale Production Cancelled
- Christopher Columbus and the Bible
- Why a Bible Museum? Catch the Vision
- Woodrow Wilson on the Bible in America
- Let There Be Light (William Tyndale’s Bible)
- William Tyndale Coming to HBU (“Fire for the 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
- 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
- “I Do Solemnly Swear…” (Presidents and Inauguration Bibles0
- The Bible and Oaths
- Washington’s Inaugural Bible
- Go Texan! (Bible’s Role in Settlement of Texas0
- Are you Regularly Reading Your Bible?
- New Film on Bible in America Museum
- The Pilgrim’s Bible (Geneva Bble)
- Family Record Project
- The Old and New Testament Dissected (from Matthew Carey 1801 Bible)
- Medieval Torah Scroll Comes to Museum
- Ronald Reagan and the Bible
- Noah Webster’s Bible and its Story
- 400th anniversary of the beginning of the King James Version, 1604
- Latest Acquisition: Codex Vaticanus
- For Father’s Day” John Q. Adams’ Letter to His Son
- Picturing the Word (Illustrations in American Bibles)
- A Prayer Before the Reading of the Holy Scripture
- Abraham Lincoln and the Bible
- Website update
- Advice on Christian Marriage
- What’s in a Name? (popularity of Biblical name for babies)
- 9/11, 1777
- The Bible in America Collection
- Jonathan Edward’s 300th Birthday
- Isaiah’s word for today (Karen Hughes)
- Curator Appointed for Bible in America Museum
- Digitized Museums
- How Many Bible Names Are There in Texas?