Oklahoma City Museum of Art: "Passages" opens Monday

Several weeks ago we posted a story about "Passages," a worldwide traveling exhibit of historic biblical texts and artifacts.  The exhibit is set to open Monday, May 16, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.  Here's a great new video (below) and a news story about the exhibit, with some terrific footage of many of the items that will be on display.  Enjoy the video, and then there are some pictures after the jump.

Oklahoma City Museum of Art: "Passages"

The Oklahoma City Museum of Art will be the first stop for "Passages," a worldwide traveling exhibit of historic biblical texts and artifacts.  According to NewsOK, the exhibition, which opens May 16 and closes October 16, “will have some of the most incredible rare biblical artifacts in private hands in the world,” [Hobby Lobby President Steve] Green said. “It will tell the story of the history of the English Bible.”

The exhibition's website, Explore Passages, describes what visitors will find:

Passages' 14,000-square-foot, interactive, non-sectarian, worldwide traveling exhibition will enable visitors to see, touch, feel and experience the dramatic and surprising story of thousands of years of Bible history. Included in the exhibition is one of the earliest pieces of Genesis, along with the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, one of the earliest-surviving, near-complete Bibles, and the most extensive early biblical texts in Jesus' household language of Palestinian Aramaic.

"The Bible didn't come from Mount Sinai to Moses and end up in a Red Roof Inn desk drawer," continued [Collection Director Scott] Carroll. "There was a process and Passages tells the dramatic story of that process."

I hope Elliot has a chance to see this exhibit in OKC.  It should be amazing.  Enjoy some pictures and a news video about Passages after the jump.