| After nearly a year in the making, Zondervan, the world’s leading Bible publisher, is placing one of only two original versions of the handwritten Bible Across America up for auction. The proceeds from the eBay auction will benefit Biblica, the translation sponsor of the New International Version (NIV) translation, the translation used for Bible Across America.
The original Bible Across America features three leather-bound volumes of the 2,200 hand written 12 x 17 pages. Interested buyers can visit Zondervan’s Bible Across America store on eBay and make an offer to own the world’s first completely handwritten NIV Bible. The auction will close on December 1, 2009, the day Bible Across America hits store shelves.
Zondervan launched the Bible Across America tour in September 2009 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the bestselling NIV Bible by inviting people of all ages and walks of life to take part in creating the first-ever handwritten version of the NIV Bible, written one verse, one person at a time.
After a nine-month cross country tour covering 22,579 miles, 90 cities and 40 states, more than 31,000 people had a hand in writing Bible Across America, one person, one verse at a time.
All proceeds from the Bible Across America auction will go to Colorado Springs-based Biblica, formerly the International Bible Society. For 200 years, Biblica has been committed to transforming lives through God's Word by translating, producing, and distributing Bibles, Scripture materials, and other Christian resources through ministry, distribution, and retail channels around the world. |
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