Biblical Calligraphy
by Wyatt Houtz   June 7, 2008 5:59pm v.14 Rating: Status: Hidden

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I'm now interested in Biblical Calligraphy after meeting someone at my church who is hand copying the epistle of Romans from the ESV translation into a handmade book. Before the Gutenberg printing press, all bibles were hand copied by scribes and many were filled with beautiful artwork. I found this cool webpage at Dallas Theological Seminary that has pictures many old bibles. Most of them are written in Greek, Latin, and English. A long time ago, I read a great book called "In the beginning..." by Alister McGrath that discussed all the iterations of the bible from the Greek Septuagint LXX to the Latin Vulgate to the Geneva Bible to Bishops Bible to William Tyndale New Testament and so on. I highly recommend it too. Before the Gutenberg press (I learned from this book) that a copy of the bible cost about three years of blue collar wages.  So I'm thinking about making my own hand copy of the bible in Calligraphy too. Maybe start with the Gospel of John, or the Sermon on the Mount. We'll see. I'm studying Deuteronomy in my M'Cheyne plan and Moses wrote this excellent verse commanding the future King to make his own copy of Deuteronomy (or maybe the whole Torah): Deuteronomy 17:18-20 "And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.   Last Update: June 7, 2008 7:30pm Tags: calligraphy, bible, gutenberg, esv, romans, martin luther, luther bible

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