Mission Statement
To promote scholarship, research, and education with goals towards publication concerning the unfinished works of B. Cobbey Crisler, in the development of early Christianity in Asia Minor and Palestine.
Mission Statement
To promote scholarship, research, and education with goals towards publication concerning the unfinished works of B. Cobbey Crisler, in the development of early Christianity in Asia Minor and Palestine.
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The research collection of B. Cobbey Crisler remains intact, though considerably enhanced since the building and establishment of Crisler Library Ephesos in Selcuk, Turkey opposite the archaeological site of Ephesus. Crisler Library has moved to Oxford, England to further promote research, scholarship and education. About us ›
B. Cobbey Crisler’s original extensive library is available by appointment. His work continues to inspire researchers. Library & Research ›
Crisler Library Cyprus aims to make available information on the works of B. Cobbey Crisler and seeks to make accessible his writings and to publish further research inspired by his work. Publications ›
To sustain the ongoing work of the library, sales of the original talks availble on CD's recorded from the original talks of the B. Cobbey Crisler lectures are on offer. Shop ›
After the Austrian archaeologists departed fro lunch, Cobbey started to search for the menorah. He scraped off dried mortar. He liberated the platform and the stairs from its gray shell. Worked several hours. No menorah…
In 2002, the Crislers’ longtime friend Professor David Noel Freedman, member of the original translation committee of the Dead Sea Scrolls, urged Mrs. Crisler to establish a presence in Turkey and continue there with her husband’s work…
A textural scholar, Bachelor of Arts degree Harvard University, ‘54. His own research of the original texts in ancient Greek and Hebrew led to producing an audio-tape series titled Search the Scriptures recorded live during his lectures throughout the United States, Australia, New Zealand and France…
Though a music major in college, after marriage to her beloved B. Cobbey Crisler interests turned to archaeology during significant field work at Caesarea Maritima, a port city on the Mediterranean Sea built by Herod the Great (circa 22 BC to 12 AD) during his tenure representing Rome in Palestine…
The main part of the books and works held at the Crisler Library at Ephesos constituted the cornerstone for the foundation of Crisler Library in Oxford. Those books and archaelogical pieces are the main assets provided for researchers working at the Library…
Any income from the bookstore will help to sustain the Library and the researchers. Many thanks.
B. Cobbey Crisler, for the last decade of his life has searched Ephesus for this inscription. After his death, Mrs Janet Crisler discussed with Prof. Dieter Knibbe, epigrapher for Ephesus, the whereabouts of the Abgar Inscription…