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July 2, 2009
The Saint John's Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods
Exhibition schedule: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, February 15, 2009–May 24, 2009
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Donald Jackson. Valley of Dry Bones (2006). Copyright 2006 The Saint John’s Bible and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John’s University, United States of America. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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The Saint John’s Bible: A Modern Vision through Medieval Methods treated its audience to a journey through a “Bible for the 21st century,” to quote an exhibition wall text. The project is the fruit of a decade-long collaboration undertaken by an international team of master calligraphers and a community of theologians and scholars from Saint John’s University and Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. This exhibition was the first to place selected pages from the seven-volume Saint...