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Bible History & Manuscripts
Where the text itself survived.
Bible history and manuscript sites are where the text of scripture itself was written, copied and rediscovered. Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Codex Sinaiticus at Mount Sinai and the great scriptoria of the ancient church show how the Bible reached us — with museum locations, exhibition details and the dating of each manuscript find.
5 destinations
5/5 SignificanceSaint Catherine, Egypt
Saint Catherine's Monastery
The oldest monastery still in use, built around the bush where God spoke to Moses. It holds a world-famous library.
5/5 SignificanceQumran, Israel
Qumran
Caves above the Dead Sea where a shepherd boy found the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest Bible texts we have.
4/5 SignificanceLondon, United Kingdom
Codex Sinaiticus, British Library
A London library where you can see the oldest complete New Testament in the world, written by hand about 1,600 years ago.
3/5 SignificanceHoly Island, United Kingdom
Lindisfarne
A small island you can only reach at low tide. Irish monks brought Christianity to northern England from here.
3/5 SignificanceIsle of Iona, United Kingdom
Iona Abbey
A tiny Scottish island where the monk Columba landed in 563. Christianity spread across Scotland from here.