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The Myers Park United Methodist Church Library Ministry Team and its patrons will be sponsoring several events and activities to celebrate National Bible Month in November. Goodness Gracious! Gifts will carry a large assortment of bible translations and biblical study resources For you to peruse and purchase. An exhibit entitled “Bibles With a Story,” will display a variety of unique and unusual bibles including a 1599 Breeches Bible and one from the Civil War era. This exhibit will be in Room 213, just outside Jubilee Hall in the Parish Life Building. A four-week course, How We Got Our B/h/c, will be offered on Thursdays during November at both 11:00 am. and 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Life Building. November 2: Session I - Discerning What is Scripture; November 9: Session 2 - Jerome and the Latin Vulgate; November 16: Session 3 - John Wycliffe; November 30: Session 4 - The King James Bible and Modern Translations
http://www.donredding.com/2006biblemonthmpumc.wmv
The Myers Park United Methodist Church Library Ministry Team and its patrons will be sponsoring several events and activities to celebrate National Bible Month in November. Goodness Gracious! Gifts will carry a large assortment of bible translations and biblical study resources For you to peruse and purchase. An exhibit entitled “Bibles With a Story,” will display a variety of unique and unusual bibles including a 1599 Breeches Bible and one from the Civil War era. This exhibit will be in Room 213, just outside Jubilee Hall in the Parish Life Building. A four-week course, How We Got Our B/h/c, will be offered on Thursdays during November at both 11:00 am. and 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Life Building. November 2: Session I - Discerning What is Scripture; November 9: Session 2 - Jerome and the Latin Vulgate; November 16: Session 3 - John Wycliffe; November 30: Session 4 - The King James Bible and Modern Translations
![donRedding > 20. Dixon Family Bible--Mark Barden
The inscription in the front of this family Bible given to me is a fascinating story in itself. “This was my great grandmother’s (Priscilla Dixon) Bible. It came into my possession through my grandmother Eve J Dixon Barrett
— wife of John Thomas Barrett (my grandfather). Hubert Bynum (colored) [sic] whose parents were slaves of my great grandmother gave this to me January 13, 1934. Clara Barrett Currie”. Clara Barrett Currie was my great-aunt.](http://donredding.smugmug.com/02-Church-Sunday-School-and/Bibles/20061109-Bibles-on-Display/20-Large/109176319_D97gF-Ti.jpg "donRedding > 20. Dixon Family Bible--Mark Barden
The inscription in the front of this family Bible given to me is a fascinating story in itself. “This was my great grandmother’s (Priscilla Dixon) Bible. It came into my possession through my grandmother Eve J Dixon Barrett
— wife of John Thomas Barrett (my grandfather). Hubert Bynum (colored) [sic] whose parents were slaves of my great grandmother gave this to me January 13, 1934. Clara Barrett Currie”. Clara Barrett Currie was my great-aunt.")
13. Sunday School Teachers’ Bible--James Howell
This Bible belonged to Wade Hampton Hartsell, my great grandfather. The pen inscription inside announces that he was given this Bible in 1912 in Oakboro, North Carolina, for reading more chapters of the Bible than anyone else in his Church.
Ft is The Self-Pronouncing S.S. Teachers’ Combination Bible — Fine Art Edition, published in 1895 by J. R. Jones. “Showing in simple form all changes, additions and omissions made by the revisers in the King James Version enabling Bible readers to see at a glance wherein the two versions differ. This Bible contains the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised”
This Bible belonged to Wade Hampton Hartsell, my great grandfather. The pen inscription inside announces that he was given this Bible in 1912 in Oakboro, North Carolina, for reading more chapters of the Bible than anyone else in his Church.
Ft is The Self-Pronouncing S.S. Teachers’ Combination Bible — Fine Art Edition, published in 1895 by J. R. Jones. “Showing in simple form all changes, additions and omissions made by the revisers in the King James Version enabling Bible readers to see at a glance wherein the two versions differ. This Bible contains the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised”
13. Sunday School Teachers’ Bible--James Howell
This Bible belonged to Wade Hampton Hartsell, my great grandfather. The pen inscription inside announces that he was given this Bible in 1912 in Oakboro, North Carolina, for reading more chapters of the Bible than anyone else in his Church.
Ft is The Self-Pronouncing S.S. Teachers’ Combination Bible — Fine Art Edition, published in 1895 by J. R. Jones. “Showing in simple form all changes, additions and omissions made by the revisers in the King James Version enabling Bible readers to see at a glance wherein the two versions differ. This Bible contains the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised”
This Bible belonged to Wade Hampton Hartsell, my great grandfather. The pen inscription inside announces that he was given this Bible in 1912 in Oakboro, North Carolina, for reading more chapters of the Bible than anyone else in his Church.
Ft is The Self-Pronouncing S.S. Teachers’ Combination Bible — Fine Art Edition, published in 1895 by J. R. Jones. “Showing in simple form all changes, additions and omissions made by the revisers in the King James Version enabling Bible readers to see at a glance wherein the two versions differ. This Bible contains the Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues; and with the former translations diligently compared and revised”
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