Bible collection to be displayed

FALLBROOK – The Fowler Bible Collection will be exhibited in Fallbrook on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 6 and 7 at the Fallbrook Presbyterian Church.

Jim Fowler began to collect Bibles when he purchased a facsimile of the Codex Vaticanus B around the turn of the century. It soon became his passion to develop a collection that would demonstrate “The History of the Christian Scriptures.”

The collection has grown to over 1,000 Bibles documenting the development of the scriptures from the Dead Sea Scrolls, through the various Hebrew texts, papyri and

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