You might not look twice if you saw the Bible on a shelf, but take the time to open it up and you’ll see it’s special. “It’s an exciting feeling,” said Sam Bussan, a junior who works in the Lewis & Clark library as an archival assistant.
He found the more than 400-year-old Bible last week by chance. “I was about to leave for the day,” Bussan said.
But a box caught his eye. He opened it and found a number of Bibles. One of them was printed in 1599. For Bussan, even holding the piece of history is a powerful feeling.
“It’s strange to say about a book… but it’s almost a religious experience or maybe the closest thing to a religious experience that I have as a not very religious person,” Bussan said.
The Bible he found is remarkable for many reasons.
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