it’s really exciting to take these out
of storage and look at them and you sort
of get a sense of the excitement and
sense of discovery that freer had when
he first saw these manuscripts and you
can just imagine how exciting I made
something like out of Indiana Jones
these Bibles are really important for a
number of reasons because they date to a
period when Christianity had
transitioned from being a sort of
underground cult religion to being a
normative religion and so it was at the
very moment that these texts were being
standardized and codified they’re made
from animal skin also called parchment
and it can be the animal skins that were
used were varied either goat sheep or
cow
parchment is it’s actually a very nice
material it’s very it is essentially
like leather
except it’s not tanned it’s actually
it’s it feels nice I think the main
techniques that have been used to date
these have been based on looking at the
style of script and writing and words
and letters used there are other
scientific tests that can be done like
carbon-14 dating the problem with the
tests like that is that it’s what we
call a destructive analysis you actually
have to take a sample which then gets
destroyed and at this point in time we
don’t want to put holes in in our
important documents we’re showing it now
in the unexpected setting of whistlers
peacock room because that’s how Charles
freer showed it when it was in his
possession at his home in Detroit so
these Bibles are really important for a
number of reasons because they date to a
period when Christianity had
transitioned from being a sort of
underground cult religion to being a
normative religion and so it was at the
very moment that these texts were being
standardized and codified there are a
lot of very sort of esoteric anomalies
but the most famous and the most
significant and certainly the one that
caused the biggest stir
when the Gospels were published in 1912
is what’s known as the freer Logie on
and that’s essentially a verse that
follows the last chapter of the book of
Mark that occurs in no other known
gospel in the world and it’s essentially
a post-resurrection appearance of Christ
before some of his disciples where he
proclaims the end of Satan’s reign on
earth scholars have suggested that it
may relate to a now lost gospel that no
longer is part of the four Gospels but
we really don’t know what its origins
are how it ended up at the end of the
book of mark
of storage and look at them and you sort
of get a sense of the excitement and
sense of discovery that freer had when
he first saw these manuscripts and you
can just imagine how exciting I made
something like out of Indiana Jones
these Bibles are really important for a
number of reasons because they date to a
period when Christianity had
transitioned from being a sort of
underground cult religion to being a
normative religion and so it was at the
very moment that these texts were being
standardized and codified they’re made
from animal skin also called parchment
and it can be the animal skins that were
used were varied either goat sheep or
cow
parchment is it’s actually a very nice
material it’s very it is essentially
like leather
except it’s not tanned it’s actually
it’s it feels nice I think the main
techniques that have been used to date
these have been based on looking at the
style of script and writing and words
and letters used there are other
scientific tests that can be done like
carbon-14 dating the problem with the
tests like that is that it’s what we
call a destructive analysis you actually
have to take a sample which then gets
destroyed and at this point in time we
don’t want to put holes in in our
important documents we’re showing it now
in the unexpected setting of whistlers
peacock room because that’s how Charles
freer showed it when it was in his
possession at his home in Detroit so
these Bibles are really important for a
number of reasons because they date to a
period when Christianity had
transitioned from being a sort of
underground cult religion to being a
normative religion and so it was at the
very moment that these texts were being
standardized and codified there are a
lot of very sort of esoteric anomalies
but the most famous and the most
significant and certainly the one that
caused the biggest stir
when the Gospels were published in 1912
is what’s known as the freer Logie on
and that’s essentially a verse that
follows the last chapter of the book of
Mark that occurs in no other known
gospel in the world and it’s essentially
a post-resurrection appearance of Christ
before some of his disciples where he
proclaims the end of Satan’s reign on
earth scholars have suggested that it
may relate to a now lost gospel that no
longer is part of the four Gospels but
we really don’t know what its origins
are how it ended up at the end of the
book of mark
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