Hands-On Spiritual Formation in Kuyper Class
Kuyper students in adjunct instructor Eric Stratten’s Spiritual Formation class had the chance recently to hear from a renowned scholar and archeologist. 
Dr. Scott Carroll organized one of the largest private biblical collections in North America in the 1990s. He then helped establish the core collection, initial exhibitions and vision for what now forms the Museum of the Bible, in Washington, D.C. And a more recent project is the INSPIRED Exhibit, an international traveling exhibition that features ancient manuscripts, scrolls and Bibles that are rarely seen outside of museums.
At the Kuyper visit, Stratten’s students were able to see and handle a number of rare antiquities, including a 2,800-year-old Babylonian cuneiform tablet, a papyrus page from a Greek book of Psalms dating to around 200 AD, a Latin manuscript of the Bible, the kind typically used by university students, dating to 1230 AD, and a Hebrew Torah scroll (the first five books of the Bible) from the Netherlands dated around 1700 AD.
