Bible and Orient Museum

The Bible and Orient Museum (own spelling: BIBLE ORIENT Museum ) in Fribourg ( Switzerland ), the exhibition is a collection of ancient Egyptian and ancient Near Eastern miniature art and a project to build a modern museum to compare biblical and extra-biblical texts with archaeological, epigraphic and iconographic data. Through this juxtaposition insights are to be developed for the promotion of inter-religious dialogue.

Sponsorship

The Canton of Fribourg, the University of Freiburg and the Friends ' project BIBLE ORIENT " establish 2005, the foundation BIBLE ORIENT for the purpose of upgrading and development of the collection, with the aim of effective publication and the future construction and operation of a Bible - and - Orient Museum.

Origin and purpose

Even as a student collected the Bible and religion scientists and Egyptologist Othmar Keel on his travels in the Near East and Ancient Near Eastern blank cameo image carrier such as cylinder seals, scarabs and amulets. This " Miniature Art ", which let easily be transported over long distances, spread five years ago and three thousand quasi as a visual means of mass communication major motifs and symbols. They envisioned at that time an important protection and symbols of power and disclosed today the close ties of the Bible with their ancient Near Eastern environment. Keel noted that many biblical comparisons, symbols and visions are not properly be understood without knowledge of these symbols and clarified so that in general the importance of the ancient Near Eastern cultural history of biblical scholarship.

By the biblical texts to be interpreted in its historical context, a fundamentalist biblizistisches understanding is avoided. In addition, this approach shows interrelations between Islam and Judaism, between Christianity and Judaism, between Judaism and ancient oriental paganism and thus puts the absoluteness of the monotheistic religions.

As a result, accumulated Keel and his colleagues to supplement the collection successfully more of these valuable objects. The medium term goal is to build an appropriate museum will be sought with the new ways of knowledge transfer.

Today's inventory of the collection

Since 1975 have come together by renowned donations and purchases over 15,000 unique exhibits from the Ancient Near East. Many of them are exhibited in a permanent exhibition with 57 pull-out, illuminated display cabinets drawers and 6, which provide a meaningful insight into the world of the ancient Near East, from which the Bible emerged.

Among them are frühpaläolithische bifaces from Syria; Near Eastern, especially Akkadian, Old Babylonian, Syriac, Mitanni and Neo-Assyrian cylinder seals; Near Eastern, prehistoric and Iron Age stamp seal; Near Eastern terracottas, idols, amulets, etc.; Cuneiform tablets, altakkadisch to Persian, partly with seal impressions; Palestinian vessels, inter alia, from the excavations on the Tel Kinneret (Israel ); Scarabs and other Egyptian and ägyptisierende seal amulets ( the world's third largest collection of its kind ); unengraved scarabs and scarab amulets; Egyptian Amulets and bronzes; Egyptian amulet forms; Egyptian stelae, bronzes and reliefs; clay tablets; tools; weapons; ceramics; Manuscripts of biblical writings; Torah and Esther scrolls; Samaritan Pentateuch; Korans; coins; lamps; Palestinian ethno Logica.

Special

With parts of the collection and their interpretations have been following exhibitions in recent years with considerable success in Switzerland and Germany designed and realized: " Animals in the Bible ", " advertising for the gods ", " Solomon's Temple ", " God female", « Vertical ecumenism ".

Museum project

Between the city of Freiburg and the University Station rises finished one in 1415, 33 meters high tower, which is unused for decades. 1998 bought by the canton of Fribourg, the terrain and the so-called " Heinrich storm". In order to set up the museum in the tower and on the neighboring parcel, a feasibility study was prepared.

Publications

  • BIBLE ORIENT original: Introduction to the formation of the collections of the University of Freiburg, ISBN 978-3-7278-1568-3
  • Othmar Keel: Female God: a hidden side of the biblical God, Gütersloh, 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08044-4
  • Othmar Keel, Silvia Schroer: Eva - mother of all living things: women and goddesses idols from the Ancient Near East, Fribourg / Switzerland, 2006, ISBN 3-7278-1460-8 (2nd Edition)
  • Othmar Keel, Ulrike Bechmann and Wolfgang Lienemann: Vertical ecumenism: memory work in the service of interreligious dialogue, Fribourg / Switzerland, 2005, ISBN 3-7278-1516-7.
  • Othmar Keel, Ernst A. Knauf, Thomas Staubli: Solomon's Temple, Fribourg / Switzerland, 2004, ISBN 3-7278-1459-4
  • Susanne Bickel: In Egyptian society: Aegyptiaca the BIBLE ORIENT Collections of the University of Freiburg Switzerland, Fribourg / Switzerland, 2004, ISBN 3-7278-1429-2
  • CD temple music: 22 music examples document the origin of the Jerusalem temple music and its development in the singing of psalms. An exciting journey through 2000 years of music history.
  • Thomas Staubli: Advertisement for the gods. Savior from 4000 years, Fribourg / Switzerland, 2003, ISBN 3-7278-1419-5
  • Othmar Keel, Thomas Staubli: In the shadow of your wings: Animals in the Bible and the ancient Near East, Fribourg / Switzerland, 2001, ISBN 3- 7278-1358 -X
  • Othmar Keel, Christoph Uehlinger: Ancient Near Eastern miniature art: the oldest visual means of mass communication, Fribourg / Switzerland, 1996, ISBN 3-7278-1053- X.
  • Othmar Keel, Thomas Staubli: Les animaux du jour 6ème: Les animaux dans la Bible et dans l' Orient ancien, Fribourg / Switzerland, 1993, ISBN 2-8271-0960-3
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