About

The Bible as a Material Object is an Undergraduate Course at the University of Michigan, taught by Deborah L. Forger, Ph.D.

-- For more information about the course, see the flyer below.

-- If you are from a community group, interesting in scheduling a visit to one of U of M's collections related to the Bible, email Dr. Forger to see if there is availability in the coming calendar year.

Dr. Forger, M.Div., Ph.D. is a scholar of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, with an additional focus on early Jewish-Christian relations. To learn more about Dr. Forger and her academic work, see here, here, and here.

This website, created with the collaboration of Henry Sealey, showcases the physical materials that students see during the course's field trips to various U of M library collections related to the Bible. Throughout the course, students also engage in several hands-on activities. They work directly with parchment, papyri, and ink; create their own single-quire codices; work directly with letter press; and analyze modern films where physical forms of the Bible appear.