Bible Across America Off ered On eBay
RESIDENTS HELPED CREATE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT
Saturday, November 14, 2009
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — After nearly a year in the making, Zondervan will put the original version of the handwritten Bible Across America on the auction block.
The proceeds from the eBay auction will benefit Biblica, the translation sponsor of the New International Version of the Bible, the translation used for Bible Across America.
The original Bible Across America features three leather-bound volumes of the 2,200 page manuscript. It was hand written on 11-x 17-inch paper during the Bible Across America tour.
The tour stopped at the John Brown University Rogers Center and Skia in Bentonville on Jan. 7-8. Hundreds of community members penned verses from 2 Kings, Matthew and Luke.
Interested buyers can visit Zondervan’s Bible Across America eBay store at stores.shop.ebay.com/Bible-Across-America-Charity-Sale and make an off er. The auction will close at 10:11 a.m. Nov. 22.
Zondervan launched the Bible Across America tour in September 2008 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the bestselling NIV Bible. People of all ages and walks of life were invited to take part in creating the fi rst handwritten version of the NIV Bible. The manuscript was written one verse, one person at a time.
The nine-month cross country tour covered 22,579 miles, 90 cities and 40 states. More than 31,000 people took part.
Two original copies werecreated during the tour. Each page was checked and scanned to create a published version which will hit store shelves Dec. 1. The Bible will also be available at www.bibleacrossamerica.com.
“Nothing like the Bible Across America tour had been done before, so we weren’t entirely sure what to expect when we launched the campaign,” said Zondervan CEO Moe Girkins. “It quickly became evident that people across America love the Bible, love the NIV and were eager to be part of this unique project.
“We are thrilled to be just weeks away from publishing Bible Across America and are launching this auction to help this unique piece of history find a home, and simultaneously support Biblica’s life-changing global Bible translation and distribution eff orts.”
All proceeds from the Bible Across America auction will go to Colorado Springs-based Biblica, formerly the International Bible Society. For 200 years, Biblica has been committed to transforming lives through God’s Word by translating, producing and distributing Bibles, Scripture materials and other Christian resources.
Religion, Pages 12 on 11/14/2009
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