Today at Museum of the Bible

Eyal Carlin is Israel’s Tourism Commissioner to North America. Heading marketing and business development initiatives for tourism promotion to the State of Israel, he oversees five government tourism office across North America. Eyal worked in Israel’s renowned Pharmaceutical and High-Tech industries before joining the Israel Ministry of Tourism (IMOT) in 2010.
Prior to his appointment as Tourism Commissioner to North America, Eyal served as the Director of IMOT’s Southern United States Region, Director of the Americas Department in IMOT’s headquarters in Jerusalem, and Senior Head of the Overseas Division, also in Jerusalem.
Eyal holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, and an MA in Talmudic Studies and Hebrew Philology from Hebrew University.

Kyle Choe speaks to Jeff about his fathers calligraphy and the Bible they are donating to the museum.

Listen to Dr. Mark Gaither, CEO at the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, discuss his partnership with the museum to image Byzantine manuscripts and why imaging manuscripts and making them available online is so important for scholars and the public.

Professor Yosef Ofer speaks about the text of the Hebrew Bible as well as manuscripts he is examining from the Museum of the Bible’s collection.

Listen to Professor Andrew Casper of Miami University, Ohio, at the special preview program for the opening of our new exhibit, Mystery and Faith: The Shroud of Turin. Professor Casper will speak about the Shroud in Italian art and how the Shroud itself was conceived of as a divine work of art in the early modern period.

Dr. Cheryl White, Professor of History at Louisiana State University talks about the history of the Shroud of Turin before it came to Turin, as well as her work as an advisor for the “Mystery and Faith: The Shroud of Turin” exhibition.

A conversation with Dr. Andrew Caspar, Professor of Art History at Miami University about his new book, “An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy.”

For Armenians, the development of the Armenian Bible is imbued with sacred importance, since it enabled the spread of Christianity, the development of Armenian theology, and the survival of a distinct, unified cultural community.

This presentation is given by Dr. Jesse S. Arlen, director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center, and postdoctoral research fellow in Armenian Christian Studies at the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University.

Listen to Dr. Jesse S. Arlen, director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center and postdoctoral research fellow in Armenian Christian Studies at the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University, as he discusses the development of the Armenian Bible and the impact it has had on Armenian Christianity and culture.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie is a retired bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and author of six books. In 2000, McKenzie became the first woman to be elected as bishop in the denomination's history. She later served as President of the Council of Bishops, becoming the first woman to serve as Titular head of the AME Church.