Why believing the Bible

Often we hear people  arguing that Jesus did not exist. But that would be the same as saying Alexander the Great, Stalin or Hitler did not exist. You may either like or not like those persons, you cannot neglect the historical evidence that those persons existed and did certain things which shall stay imprinted in human history.

Though less proof is available of certain persons, like Aristotle, Euripides or others than that of Jesus nobody seems to object that those philosophers existed.

Also a strange thing about historical accuracy is that in the Bible several events where predicted and written down many years before the events took place. In worldly writings we can only find details about those prophesied things after they occurred in real life.


Brother Dr Martyn Lawrence is Senior Publisher at a leading academic publishing house. He explores the reliability and number of the original manuscripts of the Bible in comparison to other sources of historical events.

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History teacher John Botten explains how the Bible not only records ancient history but also predicted the rise and fall of Alexander the Great.

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Why I Believe the Bible - Archaeology -- Dr Leen Ritmeyer explores how modern day archaeological discoveries verify the Biblical account of historic events.

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Dutch version / Nederlandse versie:Waarom wij in de Bijbel moeten geloven

The Anjou Bible Project

The Belgian cultural heritage is a commodity, one that draws researchers and tourists from abroad to our country. To preserve all the beautiful things which can be found in our small country we do need a lot of money.

The Inbev-Baillet Latour Fund awarded 80.000 € to a restauration project on the "Anjou-Bible", a mid 14th-century precious manuscript, kept in a vault at Leuven.
The manuscript was executed at the behest of Robert I of Anjou. In the early 16th century, the manuscript came to the Arras College of the 15 th century university at Leuven, by the doings of the bishop of Arras. And today it still belongs to the university, as it is preserved at the Maurits Sabbe Library (Theology Department).
The recent work on the manuscript was a co-production between llluminare at Leuven and KIK-IRPA, the Royal Institute for the Study and Conservation of Belgium's Artistic Heritage, based at Brussels.

Lieve Watteeuw of Leuven University in Belgium presented on February the 23 rd at the Getty Center 1200 Getty Center Drive, Brentwood, L.A., CA an illustrated history of this Anjou Bible  on June the 17th. She compared her findings with the panel painting tradition found elsewhere in Italy from the first half of the fourteenth century.

Here in Europe we soon shall be able to see all the pages in real life at The exhibition: 10 September until 28 November 2010.

During the exhibition in the new Louvain Urban Museum M the loose illuminated folios of the preserved handwriting shall be shown and confronted with contemporary 14th century illuminated manuscripts.

After this performance to the public,  the folios shall again be bound as a codex.

Dutch article with some photos: Anjou Bijbel


Progress Report 2007-2009
Cultura fonds library on the Anjou bible, surgeons and funding

Codex Sinaiticus available for perusal on the Web

The surviving pages of the world's oldest Christian Bible have been reunited digitally. The early work known as the Codex Sinaiticus has been housed in four separate locations across the world for more than 150 years. It comprises just over 400 large leaves of prepared animal skin, each of which measures 15 inches by 13.5 inches (380 millimeters by 345 millimeters). It is the oldest book that contains a complete New Testament and is only missing parts of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha.
The 4th-century book, written in Greek, has been digitally reunited in a project involving groups from Britain, Germany, Russia and Egypt, which each possessed parts of the 1,600-year-old manuscript.
They worked together to publish new research into the history of the Codex and transcribed 650,000 words over a four-year period.

The only other Bible that rivals Codex Sinaiticus in age is the Codex Vaticanus, which was written around the same time but lacks parts of the New Testament.

> www.codexsinaiticus.org
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Codex Sinaiticus: text, Bible, book

Codex Sinaiticus

The Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest known Bibletext, handwritten well over 1600 years ago can be found on the internet. The manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. Its heavily corrected text is of outstanding importance for the history of the Bible and the manuscript – the oldest substantial book to survive Antiquity – is of supreme importance for the history of the book. [Find out more about Codex Sinaiticus.]
Only the Codex Vaticanus saved at the Vatican is from around the same period.