The Lutheran Bible, written in German Gothic script and containing the handwritten dates of births, deaths and marriages for seven generations of Tim Shier's family, went missing in the burglary ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.

This Bible included a family record written in cursive in German in the 1700s. As local schools shifted to English in the 1800s, writing turned to the Latin-style script that’s more similar to ...

Important dates from previous owners are written in the inside cover of a 300-year-old German Bible that’s part of Renaissance Books’ collection in Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport in ...

The biggest mystery is how that Bible, nearly 400 years old and printed in an archaic German dialect, got to Boerne, a small town on the edge of the Texas Hill Country.

Donmoyer inherited the study of the German-language Bible from his late mentor Don Yoder, the godfather of so many things Pennsylvania Dutch. Yoder was in many ways the founder of folklife studies ...

NORMAL, Ill. (AP) — Thanks to dogged detective work by Mary Ryder of Books to Benefit, a woman from Mackinaw has been united with a family Bible from the 1880s and the marriage certificate of ...

But the controversy at hand was whether the Bible was available to the populace in (mostly High) German to any significant extent before Luther. It certainly was.

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.