Bible

President Harry S. Truman (left) accepts a new Revised Standard Version of the Bible from Dean Emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, Dr. Luther A. Weigle (right), in a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House. Dr. Weigle gave the book on behalf of the National Council of Churches as the chairman of the American Standard Bible Committee. Fifteen years of labor by 32 Protestant scholars went into the crafting of the RSV Bible, which was written in contemporary language. Other people are unidentified.

Bible on desk, calendar at March 1945.

Exhibit case at the Harry S. Truman Library displaying the Truman family Bible.

Exhibit case at the Harry S. Truman Library displaying the Truman family Bible.

Pages from the Truman family Bible, showing the family record.

Pages from the Truman family Bible, showing the family record.

Pages from the Truman family Bible, showing the family record.

Pages from the Truman family Bible, showing the family record.

An exhibit case in the east foyer of the Harry S. Truman Library Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri holds a number of Bibles given to President Truman.

View of area described as the Well of Moses where Moses was supposed to have found sweet water for his followers after crossing the Red Sea. Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article illustration. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.