Many thanks Dr Wallace for the updates. I greatly enjoy reading your posts.

Hey thanks, Susan, for being our advocate in DC! No, we haven’t shot the MSS in DC yet. But we’ve got a long way to go to accomplish our goals.

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal! What a testament to God’s providential preservation of His Word…. that which He has intended for us to have until the return of our Lord and Savior. As the manuscripts crumble He gives man the ingenuity to develop means to capture these images, and stirs the hearts and imaginations of scholars, like our own DR Daniel B. Wallace, to take on such an ambitious project! (unfortunate that Ms. Alter referred to you as “Mr. Wallace”). Oops.

I just returned last night from Washington DC (my son’s class trip), and saw a graphic reminder of how easily a manuscript can slip into oblivion. Our own Declaration of Independence has faded to the point where barely any words remain visible! I heard that it may be completely invisible within a year or two. I recall seeing it when I was a teen, and it was clearly visible at that time. It is of course housed in a dark, climate-controlled case, but still it is slipping away. I was afraid to photograph it, as we listened to a frightening and thunderous lecture by a guard warning us that if a flash (or pre-flash) went off we were done-for!

We also visited the Library of Congress, and saw two Bibles on display:
the first machine printed Bible— The Gutenberg Bible, and the Mainz Bible (the big one!). The gentleman at the desk informed me that a scholar card would be necessary if to view the the rest of their Biblical manuscript collection. And, he told me that it is rare for them to allow someone to photograph those manuscripts. I dropped your name of course, and said if you hadn’t done so yet, you might one day photograph their collection. Have you? I should have given him the CSNTM web address!

Thanks, Dr. Wallace!