Category: From our Research Collection

These posts share items in our closed stacks research collection.

Explore the Library’s Digital Exhibition: In Mission to Boston and the World: 150 Years of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society

The School of Theology Library is now home to several windows honoring the founders of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society that were formerly installed in the Tremont St. Methodist Church in Boston. On 21 March 2019, the School of Theology hosted a special event in the library’s Reading Room: with a lecture by Dr. Dana […]

From Our Research Collection: Vulgate Bible from 1497

The Theology Library has some strong special collections, including our biblical collections. Of course, you may know about the Massachusetts Bible Society Collection, which contains over 4500 items covering 1500 languages into which the Bible or parts have been translated (all, of course, accessible to you by asking a librarian!) Supplementing our biblical collections is […]

From Our Research Collection: School of Theology Ceremonial Bible

Are you attending matriculation on Wednesday, 9/19?  At the matriculation and graduation ceremonies at STH, it is tradition that the Head Librarian lead the faculty into Marsh Chapel carrying the School of Theology Ceremonial Bible, another member in our Archives and Research Collection. The Bible itself, a King James translation, was published the same year […]

From our Research Collection: Holy Bible in Marathi (India)

The STH Library seeks to share more stories of the treasures in our closed stacks research collection. This is one of those stories: Pandita Ramabai, with the help of her students, translated this Bible into vernacular Marathi.  Ramabai, a convert from Hinduism, learned Hebrew and Greek in order to translate the Bible into simple Marathi […]