The Bible Museum in Frankfurt

We visited the Bible Museum in Frankfurt, one of many museums along the south side of the river, a short walk from the bridge.  It’s been on our list for awhile.

It’s a small museum in what was once a church building.  There are 2 main floors–one for the Old Testament and one for the New Testament.  The top floor has a room with displays and information about how the Bible spread throughout the world.

We started with the Old Testament floor:

Here was a display of different oils and essences to smell, things mentioned in the Bible.

The New Testament floor:

This burial boxes caught my eye because the pattern of the Magdala Rosette found on the pulpit of the Capernaum synagogue was repeated here.

Interesting info about crucifixions:

Massada:

Fragment of the Greek text of Papyrus 45:

A reproduction of the Isaiah Scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

In 1984 a 2000 year-old fisherman’s boat was discovered buried in the mud of the Sea of Galilee (it was during a extremely dry year).  The boat was made of 12 different woods, but mostly cedar and oak.  It took 14 years to remove and preserve the boat.  It’s now in a museum in Ginosar, Israel.

This model of that fishing boat has been reconstructed by the woodworkers in the Erzgebirge Mountains (by where we visited Seiffen), and brought here.  It was my favorite part of the museum.  I sat in the boat for a long time thinking about Jesus and his disciples who spent a good deal of time in a boat just like this one.

Display of the types of fish found in the Sea of Galilee:

Here’s from the floor about the spreading of the Bible throughout the world:

It was a fun and interesting visit.