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The Holy Bible Belonging to Elisabeth Elliot
The Holy Bible Belonging to Elisabeth Elliot
BIB.005106
Bible - Printed Book
1953
United States
English
Printed on Paper
7.75 × 5.4 × 1.4 in (19.7 × 13.7 × 3.5 cm)
Not on View
This Bible belonged to Christian author and speaker Elisabeth (Howard) Elliot (1926–2015), who was a missionary to the Waodäni people of Ecuador in the 1950s with her husband, Jim Elliot. Elisabeth chose to stay and live with the tribe after a Waodäni hunting party killed Jim and four other missionaries in 1956. She returned to the United States in 1963. The Bible was given to her as a Christmas gift in 1956, the same year of Jim’s death, by her parents Philip and Katherine Howard.
Created in 1953 by Thomas Nelson & Sons, New York, New York. Acquired by Philip and Katherine Howard; Gifted in 1956 to Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015);[1] Via death in 2015 to Lars Gren, Little Rock, Arkansas; Donated in 2020 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC.
Notes: [1] An inscription on the front flyleaf reads, “To our dear daughter, Elisabeth Howard Elliot, with gratitude to God for her, and much love from Philip E. Howard, Jr. and Katherine J. Howard. Moorestown, N.J. For Christmas, 1956. Isa. 41:10. 2 Cor. 12:9. Phil. 1:3–6.”
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