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Bible Sales in the U.S. Hit a 21-Year High
Circana BookScan counted roughly 19 million American Bible purchases in 2025, double the units of 2019, and the trade is still short of an explanation.
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Business coverage of religious publishing: bible and devotional market share, denominational subsidies, seminary and university press budgets, retail and church distribution channels, and typical sales for a theology title. Figures are sourced where disclosed. For publishers, institutions and readers following the trade.
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Where to See Rembrandt’s Biblical Paintings
A visitor’s map of Rembrandt’s Scripture — which museums hold the landmarks, how he read the text, and what his Amsterdam neighbors had to do with it.
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Nazi-Looted Vienna Mahzor Sells for $6.4 Million at Sotheby’s
A High Holiday prayer book written in Vienna in 1415 was looted in 1938, restituted in 2023, and has now found a buyer well inside the estimate range.
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Only Complete Copy of Richard Rolle’s ‘Emendatio Vitae’ Identified at Shrewsbury School
A Shropshire school library has yielded the only complete witness to Richard Rolle’s devotional handbook in the form the hermit of Hampole first wrote it.
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Why Museums Keep Sacred Art
Altarpieces, reliquaries and manuscripts outlive the institutions that commissioned them — and museums, for all their compromises, are what steps into the gap.