The international exhibition “Belarus and the Bible” is over. The exhibition project was really unique, successful, interesting and popular. About 30 thousand people visited the exhibition during the period of activities from September 20 to October 21.
A unique international exhibition project "Belarus and the Bible" was organized by the National Library of Belarus and the Manuscript Research Group (USA).
For the first time in Belarus, internationally important rarities, which age reaches 5 thousand years, are exhibited. The exhibition reflects the history of the Bible from the early valuable manuscripts to the present day. The exhibition presents rarities from the National Library of Belarus and foreign private collections. The main part of the exhibition is represented with originals. The most significant are the pictographic and cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia (3–2 thousand years BC), the papyrus fragments of the Iliad by Homer (1st century AD), the Aesop’s Fables (1st century BC–1st century AD), medieval parchment manuscripts, a collection of different torus, first printed biblical texts, books of the Reformation, the first translations of the Bible into national languages, polyglottes and illustrated Bibles.
The exhibition has a large creative area, where they can learn to write with a quill in a “manuscript workshop”, be a printer and print a page from the Bible by Francysk Skaryna, make puzzles, take pictures in the “Noah's ark” photozone, visit the "Book Professors’ Club" and museum classes for children.
Within the framework of the exhibition project, numerous events take place (international round tables, expert lectures, excursions with the curators of the exhibition, musical performances).
The scientific program (international round tables and expert lectures) was organized in cooperation with the Belarusian State University.
International Round Tables:- International Round Table "Belarus and the Bible"
- International Scientific Round Table "Belarusian Translations of the Bible: Past and Present"
- An International Round Table on Modern Biblical Studies
- Meeting with Nobel Laureate Kenneth Brockman
- The Brest Bible and the Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) by Bruce Anderson
- Lecture "Archaeological and Manuscript Evidence of the Bible" by Dr. Scott Carroll
- Lecture by Archpriest Sergiy Gordun, candidate of Theology
- Lecture on the modern Belarusian translation of the Song of Solomon by Galina Sinilo
- Lecture on the Bible and the civilizational model, the path of the Bible to Belarus and the path of Belarus to the Bible by Irina Dubenetskaya
- Manuscript Researcher Scott Carroll Visits "The Book Professors’ Club"
- Denise Carroll Takes Part at the Book Professors' Club
- Classes at the Exhibition “Belarus and the Bible”
- Young Artists at the "Belarus and the Bible" Exhibition
- Symbolic Initiation of the First-Grade Pupils
In the media there are hundreds of positive and enthusiastic reviews about the exhibition project.
