Duke University celebrates the reception of a Heritage Edition of The Saint John's Bible in a series of events at Duke University Chapel and Duke Divinity School. A once-in-a-millennium project, the Bible is a permanent gift to Duke University to be used in research, teaching, sacred worship, and community engagement. Duke is the first institution in the Southeast region to own a complete set of this extraordinary work of sacred text and art.
The first handwritten Bible commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey in more than 500 years, The Saint John's Bible consists of seven hand-illuminated volumes created by Donald Jackson and a team of calligraphers, visual artists, monks, and scholars. The Heritage Edition is an exquisite, fine-art limited reproduction that enables communities around the world to encounter the spiritual and artistic beauty of the original.
© Donald Jackson, 2006, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, © 1993, 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
© Thomas Ingmire, 2003, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, Copyright 1993, 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
© Donald Jackson, 2002, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
©Aidan Hart with contributions from Donald Jackson and Sally Mae Joseph, Copyright 2002, The Saint John’s Bible, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved.