Facsimile reprint of 1836 A New Hieroglyphic Bible for children, $8.00, plus $.68 tax. For mail orders, add $5.20 for shipping and handling . Books are available at the University Store 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 Renaissance of the Bible: 500th Anniversary of Erasmus’ Greek Text, the Foundation for Reformation They Read the Same Bible: Bibles of the American Civil War The Bible and the American Revolution Purchase Publications Dunham Bible Museum News If you would like to receive the Dunham Bible Museum News free via email, subscribe here. Browse earlier issues below. Spring 2025 Gospels in Nyanja 500th Anniversary of Tyndale’s New Testament English Words First Used in Bible Translations Jerome on the importance of the Scriptures Fall 2024 Bibles and Presidential Inaugurations Bible verses chosen by Presidents on which to take their Presidential Oaths Chereubim and the Gospel Writers Summer 2024 Hitting the Mark (slingstones) A Man with a Vision A Piece of the Past Importance of the Bible to the Nation Fall 2023 Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls Scribes and Scripture Conference King James in Egypt Three Martyrs under Henry VIII Private Life of William Tyndale Summer 2023 Reconstructing a Lectionary Fragment Life of Jesus in 3D Art Piece of the Past Essays – 2023Winners The Kennicott Bible Winter 2023 25th Anniversary Celebration ISBC at the Dunham Bible Museum Astvacashunch (Armenian Bible) Creating an alphabet for the Bible Fall 2022 Let’s Celebrate ! – a 25th anniversary celebration The Dunham Bible Museum at 25 – part 2 Bibles with Family Records The Amazing History of the Seymour-Knightley Bible Summer 2022 HCU’s Bible Museum turns 25! Museum’s Valuable Assets The Piece of the Past 2022 A Film Crew Comes to HCU Winter 2022 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 Fall 2021 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 Summer 2021 Tanakh Exhibit Piece of the Past essay contest, 2021 winners An Honor Graduate Winter 2021 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 Fall 2020 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 Summer 2020 One Small Candle The Pilgrim Fathers Luther’s German New Testament Winter 2020 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 Fall 2019 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 Summer 2019 2019 Piece of the Past Winners A Baskett Case Ethiopian Awi Bible in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Sloan Go Figure Winter 2019 The World of Jesus Celebrating The Saint John’s Bible 1586 Actes and Monuments Fall 2018 “The God Who Speaks” Sternhold-Hopkins Psalms Augustus Toplady Hymnal King James Bible title page Summer 2018 1516 Psalter from Genoa Trinity Lutheran, Klein Donates Large Print Bibles A Special Volunteer at the Bible Museum Piece of the Past, 2018 Winter 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 Fall 2017 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 Summer 2017 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 Winter 2017 2017 and a 500th Anniversary! Sacred Songs & Solos Fall 2016 200 Years of the American Bible Society St. John’s Bible, Volume 1: The Pentateuch Summer 2016 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 Winter 2016 500th Anniversary of Erasmus’ Greek New Testament McKinney Hymn discovered 2 volumes of St. John’s Bible donated Fall 2015 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 Summer 2015 Wenceslas IV Bible comes to HCU 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 Winter 2015 Year of The St. John’s Bible Where is the Original Bible? Burkitt’s Prayer before reading Scriptures William Edgar – “Heaven in a Nightclub” Fall 2014 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 Spring 2014 Piece of the Past Essay Winners Socket Stones arrive at Museum Jane Grey’s letter in her Greek New Testament Cuneiform manuscript Winter 2014 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 Fall 2013 Thumb Bibles and Miniature Books Early English Bible History tour planned Archaeology Exhibit and Conference for 2014 In Memoriam – Gordon Severance Summer 2013 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 Spring 2013 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 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 Severance 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: Melanchthon’s 1572 “Chronicon Carionis” and “Criswell Study Bible” 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 Bible Museum – film to commemorate 400th Anniversary of King James Bible New Exhibit Celebrates Geneva Bible Freedom from Tyranny (Geneva Bible title page) Spring 2010 HCU 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 September 2009 J.S. Bach’s Bible on Exhibit Donations Expand Foreign Bible Collection “Quirt 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 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 HCU 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 HCU 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 July-September 2006 Dear Abby – 1774 (John Adams to his wife) Astronaut’s Widow Visits HCU 450 Years Later – the Scriptural Legacy of a Christian Martyr (Thomas Cranmer) Monthly Psalm Reading Cranmer on Reading the Bible April – June 2006 HCU’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 HCU (“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 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 “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 October – December 2004 The Pilgrim’s Bible (Geneva Bble) Family Record Project The Old and New Testament Dissected (from Matthew Carey 1801 Bible) July – September 2004 Medieval Torah Scroll Comes to Museum Ronald Reagan and the Bible Noah Webster’s Bible and its Story April – June 2004 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 January – March 2004 Abraham Lincoln and the Bible Website update Advice on Christian Marriage What’s in a Name? (popularity of Biblical name for babies) October – December 2003 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?
