To learn more about this ministry and their efforts to share the Gospel with Muslims around the world, click here. Nothing else so readily opens the door for a gospel conversation! This excerpt was taken from a Global Initiative newsletter. If God has put a Muslim in your life, we pray that you, too, would have the opportunity to share a Bible with him or her. Thanks to the multitude who contributed to our Afghan Bible Project, we have been able to distribute many New Testaments to our Afghan friends, as well as supplying these resources to others working with Afghans in various places. Many Muslims come to faith in Christ simply from receiving a Bible in their mother tongue. We are praying that Zahed would read this Book and that we would have opportunities to talk with him about what he’s reading. He had never held a New Testament before. As I handed him one of these, he received this Book with both hands and then gently touched it to his forehead and his lips. With joy, I drove him back to my office, where we have some Pashto New Testaments on hand. To give to the Rogers family, click this link. A few days earlier, he had seen me give an Injil to one of his friends who was moving away. He wanted an Injil, which is what we would call the New Testament. Recently, while taking Zahed to a medical appointment, he made this bold request. BTS 19: Office Move by BibleProject Team 5 years ago Go behind the scenes of our epic move. Over the last several months, we’ve been getting to know him and his friends as we help them set up their lives in the United States as part of our ministry with Global Initiative, a ministry of Assemblies of God World Missions. He arrived in our town late last year from Afghanistan, along with sixty of his countrymen. The exciting aspect of this project is the fact that it will, through the innovative and unconventional digital palaeographic analysis that we will be using, bring these scribal identities back to life.“You give me…Injil,” were the English words my friend Zahed* slowly uttered from his Pashto tongue. Through their scribal activities these anonymous scribes constructed a ‘textual community’ and negotiated identities of the movement behind the Dead Sea Scrolls. The quantitative evidence will be used to cluster manuscripts as products of scribal activity in order to profile scribal production and to determine a more precise location in time for their activity, focusing, from literary and cultural-historical perspectives, on the content and genres of the texts that scribes wrote and copied and on the scripts and languages that they used. The combination of new 14C samples and the use of computational intelligence as quantitative methods in order to assess the development of handwriting styles and to identify individual scribes is a unique strength of this project, which will provide a new and much-needed scientific and quantitative basis for the typological estimations of traditional palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls. We will combine three different approaches to study these two aspects: palaeography, computational intelligence, and 14C-dating. The main objective of this interdisciplinary project is to shed new light on ancient Jewish scribal culture and the making of the Bible by freshly investigating two aspects of the scrolls’ palaeography: the typological development of writing styles and writer identification. Palaeography can provide access to this scribal culture, showing the human hand behind what came to be regarded as holy texts. They also offer evidence for a scribal culture ‘in action’. The scrolls provide a unique vantage point for studying the dynamic and creative engagement with authoritative scriptures that were to become the Bible. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has fundamentally transformed our knowledge of Jewish and Christian origins.

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