Light To All Nations

The complete Tanakh is the full set of Hebrew Scrolls that make up the Old Testament. It took is many years to collect these Scrolls.

Hebrew Scrolls from around the world
Hebrew Scrolls from around the world

The Scriptorium Started off as –

A unique collection of authentic Hebrew Scrolls from around the world collected by Gary & Artis Zimmerman. Most of these Scrolls date from the mid 1500 to the late 1800. Many were damaged in the Holocaust and were no longer usable for Synagogue reading. A Christian businessman funded this project and asked that we find non kosher Hebrew Scrolls that had been fragmented and would never be used again. He directed us to frame as many of the individual sheets as possible and to donate them to Christian colleges, Bible translators, Museums, Churches, etc. where the Word of God is honored and studied and the Jewish people are loved and respected. Approximately 400 individual sheets have been donated, many of them in museum quality frames to encourage them to be hung in prominent places.

The purpose for this collection is threefold:

  • To tastefully exhibit the Word of God in its original Hebrew form so all can see the Creator’s Words as they were given thousands of years ago.
  • To exhibit Hebrew Scrolls showing the Gentile church the roots of their faith in original form without translation.
  • To give honor and respect to the Jewish community for receiving, writing and preservation of the Tanakh, Old Testament, and to say thank you for a job well done.
Hebrew Scrolls are the Biblical benchmark for all nations
Hebrew Scrolls are the Biblical benchmark for all nations

 

The call of Abram Genesis 12 Photograph from a Torah Scroll from Vilnius, Lithuania written in the mid 1700s.
The call of Abram Genesis 12 Photograph from a Torah Scroll from Vilnius, Lithuania written in the mid 1700s.

 

Biblical Hebrew Scrolls are the “benchmark” for all nations to know the Creator of all things, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is written in the New Testament in Romans chapter three: “What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.” Each nation must translate the Word of God from the original Writings into the vernacular of the day.

והלכו עמים רבים ואמרו לכו ונעלה אל הר יהוה אל בית אלהי יעקב וירנו מדרכיו ונלכה בארחתיו כי מציון תצא תורה ודבר יהוה מירושׁלם

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Isaiah 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.

Through a very generous sponsor The Scriptorium has had the unique privilege of freely providing portions of pasul (non-kosher) Hebrew scrolls around the world to Bible translators, Christian Seminaries, Christian colleges, Churches, mission works, Friends of Israel, and professors.

The following pictures and list of names is a short representation of the work of the Scriptorium.

10 Commandments from a Yemenite Torah donated to Chief Justice Moore
10 Commandments Yemenite Torah donated to Chief Justice Moore

 

Framed Scroll of Ecclesiastes donated to FuDan University Shanghai, China
Framed Scroll of Ecclesiastes donated to FuDan University Shanghai, China

 

Torah Scroll Seminar Appalachian Bible College
Torah Scroll Seminar Appalachian Bible College

 

Professor Gene Fisher Bob Jones University examining Scrolls
Professor Gene Fisher Bob Jones University examining Scrolls

 

Framed Torah sheet Hebrew Department Bob Jones University
Framed Torah sheet Hebrew Department Bob Jones University

 

Framed Torah 10 Commandment sheet on loan to US Congressman Mike Sodrel
Framed Torah 10 Commandment sheet on loan to US Congressman Mike Sodrel

 

Framed Torah sheet donated to Russian Baptist Church
Framed Torah sheet donated to Russian Baptist Church

 

Framed Torah 10 Commandment sheet on loan to US Congressman Kenny Marchant
Framed Torah 10 Commandment sheet on loan to US Congressman Kenny Marchant

 

Deaf Wycliffe Bible Translators from around the world taking Scrolls back to their countries
Deaf Wycliffe Bible Translators from around the world taking Scrolls back to their countries

 

Framed Torah sheet donated to Focus on the Family
Framed Torah sheet donated to Focus on the Family

 

Framed Torah sheet donated to St Louis women's clinic
Framed Torah sheet donated to St Louis women’s clinic

 

Presenting framed Torah sheet to Baptist church
Presenting framed Torah sheet to Baptist church

 

Framed Torah sheet 10 Commandments donated to US Marine base
Framed Torah sheet 10 Commandments donated to US Marine base

 

Holland's Ambassador to Israel with Rabbi Itzhak Shapira
Holland’s Ambassador to Israel with Rabbi Itzhak Shapira

 

Chief Rabbi in Columbia and Rabbi Itzhak Shapira
Chief Rabbi in Columbia and Rabbi Itzhak Shapira

America, Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Burma, Canada,
China (12 Provinces), Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji Islands, Finland, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saipan, Serbia, South Korea, Sudan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Zambia,
ESL International

Donating Torah sheet to Wycliffe Bible Translator Zambia
Donating Torah sheet to Wycliffe Bible Translator Zambia

Ambassador Baptist College North Carolina
Appalachian Bible College Bradley, WV
Aaron Jewish Work Chicago, Illinois
Association of Baptists for World Evangelism
ARNOLD BAPTIST Arnold, Missouri

Tower of Babel Torah sheet Wycliffe Bible Translator school Dallas
Tower of Babel Torah sheet Wycliffe Bible Translator school Dallas

Baptist Bible College
Baptist Bible College Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
Baptist Bible Seminary Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania
Baptist school in Japan
Bible College Vilnius Lithuania
Baptist College of Ministry
Bob Jones University (2 sheets)
Baptist Mid Missions Headquarters Building Ohio

Baptist Mid Missions missionaries
Beit Chaiyei Shalom Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bethel Bible Village
Bibles International Columbus Ohio
Bill and Bunny Cicansky (Jewish Missions CANADA)
BIMI Chattanooga Tennessee
BIMI Nepal
Bryant, Gene – Jewish missionaries in Cleveland Ohio
BELIEVERS BAPTIST CHURCH Ringgold, Georgia

Believers Baptist Church Signal Mountain Tennessee
Berean Baptist Church
Berean Baptist Church Hixson, TN
Bethany Baptist Church
Bible Seminary Houston, Texas

Bethel Baptist Fellowship Brooklyn, NY
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH
Bible Baptist Church
Bible Baptist Temple
BLOOMINGDALE SALEM BAPTIST

Scroll display at Baptist Church in West Texas
Scroll display at Baptist Church in West Texas

Christian Heritage Foundation Cleburne, Texas
College of Biblical Studies Houston, Texas
Creation Evidence Museum
Calvary Bible College

Calvary International Bible School
Cedarville College
Central Baptist Theological Seminary Virginia Beach
Christian Heritage Academy OKC
Covington Seminary Chattanooga, Tennessee
Crown Bible College
Charles and Linda Bennett (Jewish Missions ISRAEL)

Christian Academy Tokyo Japan
Cross Country Outreach Wylie, Texas
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH

Congregation Beth Messiah Houston, Texas

Congregation Beth Messiah Photo Gary & Artis Zimmerman and Granddaughter Lily
Congregation Beth Messiah Photo Gary & Artis Zimmerman and Granddaughter Lily

Calvary Baptist Tabernacle
Calvary Chapel St. Peters Missouri
Calvary Chapel Paso Robles, California
Calvary Missionary Baptist
CARDINGTON BAPTIST TEMPLE
CARL BARTON
Central City Baptist
Clayton Community Church
Clayton Community Church Women’s clinic downtown St. Louis
Collierstown Baptist Church Lexington VA
Cross Pointe Community Church Ringgold, Georgia

Portion of Torah Scroll sent to church in Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam
Portion of Torah Scroll sent to church in Ho Chi Minh city Vietnam

Davis College Pennsylvania
Dr Price Hebrew Department
Dallas Baptist Seminary

Torah sheet Wycliffe Bible Translator Switzerland
Torah sheet Wycliffe Bible Translator Switzerland

Faith Way Baptist College
Fudan University, located in Shanghai, China,

Faith Baptist Bible college Ankeny, Ohio
Friends of Zion Mission Columbus, Ohio

Front Line Ministry Taylors, South Carolina
Fountain, Don – Jewish Missionary in Oceanside, California
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH

Faith Baptist Church
Faith Bible Church Taylors, South Carolina
Faith Baptist Church
FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH
Fellowship Baptist Church Pineville, LA
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church Norman Oklahoma
First Baptist Church Lewes Delaware
First Baptist Church Salida Colorado
Freedom Baptist Church Chesapeake, VA
First Baptist Dallas, Texas Prayer Tower

Torah sheets Bible Translator Sudan, New Zealand
Torah sheets Bible Translator Sudan, New Zealand

Governor Island of Saipan
Graduate School Baptist Bible College

Gwynett Hall Baptist College Lawrenceville Georgia
Gwynett Hall Black extension north Georgia
Grand Rapids Theological Seminary
Global Baptist Ministries, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Gospel Of John Mission Moldova
Gethsemane Baptist Church

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Grace Baptist Church Dr. Euler’s church
Grace Baptist Church Godfrey, Ill.
Grace Baptist Church Smyrna, Delaware
Grace Bible Church Chesapeake, VA
Grace Kobe Baptist Church Kobe Japan

Torah sheet - Hebrew midwives save babies in Egypt donated to Women’s Clinic St Louis
Torah sheet – Hebrew midwives save babies in Egypt donated to Women’s Clinic St Louis

Hannibal LaGrange College
Heartland Bible Baptist College Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Hebrew Department Heritage North Carolina
Hebrew Professors Liberty Baptist Seminary
Hebrew Professors South Western Baptist Theological Seminary
Hurby Family Jewish missionaries in Ohio Baptist Mid-Missions
Hampton Park Baptist Church Greenville South Carolina

HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH
HARRIMAN BAPTIST TABERNACLE
Harvest Baptist Church MONROE, GA
HARVEST TIME BAPTIST
HERITAGE BAPTIST
Heritage Baptist Church Hickory North Carolina
Heritage Baptist Church

Torah sheet – 10 Commandments donated to Governor of the Island of Saipan
Torah sheet – 10 Commandments donated to Governor of the Island of Saipan

Institute for Creation Research Dallas, Texas

Torah Scroll sheet showing the Six days of Creation
Torah Scroll sheet showing the Six days of Creation

Kuekl, Beverly – Jewish missionary in Moncton, Canada Baptist Mid-Missions

Torah sheet – Donated to Seminary Grand Rapids Michigan
Torah sheet – Donated to Seminary Grand Rapids Michigan

Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisiana Baptist University Shreveport, Louisiana
Leroy & Carol Goodman Jewish Missionaries
LIFEGATE BAPTIST CHURCH
Lighthouse Baptist Church
Living Waters Baptist Church
Louisville Baptist Temple

Scriptorium Scroll display guest holding the Torah
Scriptorium Scroll display guest holding the Torah

Maranatha Baptist Academy St. Roberts, Missouri
Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Maranatha Baptist Bible Graduate School
Messiah Ministries STL

Mike Crain Camp Tennessee
Michael Fredrick (Missions THILAND)
Missions To Military Virginia Beach, VA
Messianic Witness, SanAntonio, Texas
MARANATHA BAPTIST CHURCH

MARANATHA BAPTIST CHURCH
Maranatha Baptist Church St. Roberts, Missouri
Miyota Bible Baptist Church Karizawa Japan
Mino Bible Baptist Church Japan
Mobile Baptist Church Mobile, Alabama
MOORE BAPTIST TEMPLE
Morning Side Baptist Church Greenville South Carolina
Mount Calvary Baptist Church Greenville, SC
Mr. & Mrs. Rudy Stegner
Mustang Heights Baptist

Torah sheets – Donated to 13 Provinces in China and Mongolia Chinese Pastors receiving them
Torah sheets – Donated to 13 Provinces in China and Mongolia Chinese Pastors receiving them

New Testament Baptist Church Waterloo, IL
Nishimiko Baptist Church Kobe Japan
Nagano Baptist Church Tokyo Japan
Nobelsville Baptist Temple

Providing a Torah Scroll to a Messianic Synagogue in Dallas
Providing a Torah Scroll to a Messianic Synagogue in Dallas

Oklahoma Baptist College
Oakwood Baptist Church Ooltewah, Georgia

OLD PATHWAY BAPTIST CHURCH
OPEN DOOR BAPTIST CHURCH
ORANGEBURG BAPTIST TABERNACLE

Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls at Camp Lejeune Marine Base Protestant Chapel
Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls at Camp Lejeune Marine Base Protestant Chapel

Pacific International University Figi Islands
Piedmont Baptist College (3 sheets)
Pillsbury Baptist Bible College
Pioneer Bible College
Parkway Baptist Temple

PHILADELPHIA BAPTIST
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
PLEASANT VALLEY BAPTIST
Prayer Baptist Church Chatsworth, Georgia
Ron Peedin (Orphanage Ministry LITHUANIA)

Torah sheet donated to Christian work in Nepal
Torah sheet donated to Christian work in Nepal

Seminario Bautista Biblico del Con Sur Argentina
Submarine Base Honolulu, HW Chaplain’s office

Southland Bible Institute West Virginia
Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary
Sand Mountain Bible Camp Alabama

Seed To The Sower Mission Jim Waymire Director Festus, Missouri
Shekinah Jewish Outreach
Sociedade Biblica Trinitariana do Brasil
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH

Simeonson Baptist Church Kobe Japan
SUMMIT BAPTIST CHURCH
SWEETHAVEN BAPTIST CHURCH

Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls Louisiana Baptist University student holding Torah
Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls Louisiana Baptist University student holding Torah

Tabernacle Baptist Bible College Virginia Beach, VA
Temple Baptist Seminary
Tennessee Temple University
Trinity Baptist College
Titus International Missions Chattanooga, Tennessee
TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH

Temple Baptist Church Three Rivers, Michigan
Trinity Baptist Church
Trinity Bible Church Greer South Carolina
Twin Ports Baptist Church Odessa Ukraine

Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls Louisiana Baptist University Professors holding Scroll of Isaiah
Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls Louisiana Baptist University Professors holding Scroll of Isaiah

Ubbink, Elmer – Jewish missionary Creston, Ohio Baptist Mid-Missions
US Army Fort McPherson Georgia (CHIEF CHAPLAIN’S OFFICE)
US Marine Base Camp Lejenue Main Protestant Chapel
US Congressman Washington Mike Sodrel (on loan)
US Congressman Washington Kenny Marchant (on loan)

Torah sheer – Creation, Fall of man, The Flood donated to Liberty University Virginia
Torah sheer – Creation, Fall of man, The Flood donated to Liberty University Virginia

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH

Pastors - West Kenya, Africa receive Torah sheet
Pastors – West Kenya, Africa receive Torah sheet

Women’s Clinic, St. Louis
Women’s Clinic, Chattanooga
Women’s Clinic, Springfield, MO
Women’s Clinic, Focus On The Family Colorado Springs
Women’s Clinic, Cleburne, Texas
West End Baptist Church SC

West Overland Bible Church STL
WEST SIDE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
WESTERN OAKS BAPTIST CHURCH
WESTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH
WILLOW PARK BAPTIST CHURCH
WINDSOR HILLS BAPTIST
Womens Pregnancy Center Springfield, Missouri

Baptist college Tokyo seminar on Hebrew Scrolls - receiving Torah sheet
Baptist college Tokyo seminar on Hebrew Scrolls – receiving Torah sheet

Yakota Baptist Church Yakota Japan
Yokuska Baptist Church Yokuska Japan

Hebrew Scroll Display First Baptist Church Katy, Texas - Pointing to Scroll of Ruth
Hebrew Scroll Display First Baptist Church Katy, Texas- Pointing to Scroll of Ruth

 

Scroll Seminar at Christian High School Dallas Students standing by Torah Scroll
Scroll Seminar at Christian High School Dallas Students standing by Torah Scroll

 

Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls Louisiana Baptist University student holding Torah
Seminar on Hebrew Scrolls Louisiana Baptist University student holding Torah

 

Hebrew Scroll seminar Wisconsin Guest holding Torah Scroll
Hebrew Scroll seminar Wisconsin Guest holding Torah Scroll

 

Hebrew Professor teaches from our Torah Scroll
Hebrew Professor teaches from our Torah Scroll

 

Family holding Torah Scroll at Scroll Seminar in Dallas
Family holding Torah Scroll at Scroll Seminar in Dallas

 

Torah Sheet donated to a Baptist church Kikinda, Serbia
Torah Sheet donated to a Baptist church Kikinda, Serbia

 

Torah Sheet donated to a Baptist church Belgrade, Serbia
Torah Sheet donated to a Baptist church Belgrade, Serbia

 

Torah Sheet donated to a Baptist Seminary in Croatia
Torah Sheet donated to a Baptist Seminary in Croatia

 

Scroll Seminar Baptist College in Pennsylvania students pointing to Isaiah
Scroll Seminar Baptist College in Pennsylvania students pointing to Isaiah

 

Torah Sheets donated to Bible college in Argentina
Torah Sheets donated to Bible college in Argentina

 

Messianic Synagogue borrowed our Tanakh for Simchat Torah services
Messianic Synagogue borrowed our Tanakh for Simchat Torah services