Wuppertal Bible Museum

This article covers the Wuppertal Bible Museum on Bendahler Strasse. It is not identical to the Wuppertal Bible Center , which is sponsored by the Evangelical Biblical Works in the Rhineland.

Front view of the Wuppertal Bible Museum in June 2020

The Wuppertal Bible Museum on Bendahler Strasse in Wuppertal is a free-church Bible museum . Its premises were expanded in 2008 and, in addition to the former main building at the corner of Bendahler Strasse and Wolkenburg, now also include the immediately adjacent buildings at Bendahler Strasse 58-60.

Sponsorship

The sponsor is the Association Museum für Bibelgeschichte e. V. under the direction of Stefan Drüeke. He founded the institution, which sees itself as a "Bible and Creation Museum", in 2001 with friends. Drüeke is also known as an employee of the Elberfeld translation Edition CSV Hückeswagen distributed by CSV Hückeswagen , a revised Elberfeld Bible , and is close to the biblical - fundamentalist Brethren movement , whose views also determine the content of the museum. The museum sponsor has nothing to do with the Wuppertal Bible Center , which is run by the Evangelical Biblical Works in the Rhineland and whose house at Rudolfstrasse 135 has its own permanent exhibition on the history of the Bible.

exhibition

The Wuppertal Bible Museum shows exhibits on the history of the Bible:

• the history of the art of writing in antiquity : cuneiform tablets , hieroglyphic inscriptions , papyrus fragments , emergence of the alphabet
• historical finds with biblical background ( Siloam -Inschrift, Cyrus Cylinder , Mesha Stele , etc.)
• the tradition of the Hebrew Tanach : the Isaiah scroll and other scrolls from the Dead Sea as facsimile as well as other old manuscripts in the original
• the Greek New Testament using the example of facsimiles (e.g. Codex Vaticanus , Codex Sinaiticus ) and originals
• the Latin translation of the Bible ( Vulgate ) with various originals and facsimiles
• Collection of illustrated medieval "poor Bibles" ( Biblia pauperum )
• the Gutenberg Bible with a wooden printing press in original size
• the history of the German Bible (including "The Bible in the Valley of the Wupper")
• Collection of Bibles in over 1600 languages

There are also several exhibition rooms that deal with geological history , creation and the flood from a creationist perspective . "Extensive fossil collections with terrariums and aquariums help to experience God's creative activity in awe."

The Wort und Wissen study group had temporarily rented and designed a room on the subject of Biblical Archeology .

literature

• Stefan Drüeke, Arend Remmers : The Bible - its history and tradition. Illustrated brochure for the exhibition, CSV Verlag, Hückeswagen, ISBN 978-3-89287-860-5 , 35 pages.

Web links

Commons : Bible Museum (Wuppertal)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bible Museum website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biblical and Creation Museum shows increasing interest. In: idea. July 27, 2014, accessed August 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Interview with Dr. Stefan Drüeke and Wilfried Haldenwang. In: bruederbewendung.de. Retrieved August 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wuppertal Bible Museum. Retrieved August 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Presentation by the publisher , accessed October 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 49 ″  E