Houston plaintiff's attorney, Mark Lanier, has created a theological library in Northwest Houston that open to scholars who want to do serious research. Lanier is a Baptist who has taught a very popular basic Bible literacy Sunday School class at his church for many years. The Houston Chronicle had a nice article about it today.
The library has an extensive collection, including a fragment of one of the Dead Sea Scrolls (from the book of Isaiah) as well as some other artifacts, and is continuing to aquire books. It also sponsors a series of lectures brought by scholars from different fields as you will see if you go to the website that I linked above.
In addition to the library, there is a replica of a Byzantine chapel on the grounds:
It looks like a wonderful resource for our area. I'm looking forward to visiting it soon!
3 comments:
Incredibly cool.
But as I said on FB, shouldn't you be posting about a baby today?
There should be a baby post in just a few hours--awaiting the call from Dave at the hospital to come down for the delivery!!!
I'm just trying to pass the time until then.....
Wow, that looks like a great place to study. It's awesome that they were able to acquire a fragment of the dead sea scrolls!
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