what to do with old Bibles

Interestingly, LT said her cell member asked her what happens if she burns the bible.
LT was speechless.
My reply? 'It will further deplete the ozone layer...' Haha. Not funny. But true what, the bible has some kind of special ink...

well for those of you who do not know what to do with old bibles...
here are 2 articles.

http://www.blogpastor.net/2008/06/17/disposing-of-old-bibles/

How do we dispose of old deteriorated Bibles? I must admit I have thrown some down the HDB thrash bin although most of them I have given away or made available for others to take and use. How many Bibles have I owned and fawned and used and discarded like used tissues at a hawker center table? I dare not guess. How should we dispose of old used Bibles properly? I have thought of different things but the best idea I have come up with so far was to give it away for others to use. But what will the others do with it when they buy their own new Bibles? So my interest was piqued when Anthony Loke of Old Testament Passion blogged about this and linked to a rabbi Mark Gellman’s recommendation. I have extracted the rabbi’s idea about proper disposal of old used Bibles for your convenience. Tell me what you think.

Q: I have quite a few old Catholic prayer books handed down from my wife’s mother years ago. I would like to know how to dispose of them. — F., via e-mail

A: Catholic prayer books (missals) and old deteriorated Bibles still bear the word of God and the name of God in them. They are old and worn, but they are still vessels of the holy, and so they cannot be disposed of in the garbage with yesterday’s green bean casserole. This respect for worn-out sacred books is universally shared by Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In older and more traditional Catholic practice, I am told, the books would be covered and buried respectfully though not necessarily in a cemetery. They should be covered and then buried. “Dust to dust” refers to the disposal of all holy vessels.


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http://oldtestamentpassion.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-do-you-do-with-old-bibles.html

have you ever had old worn-out bibles? those thoroughly used for years and dog-eared and marked but pages now coming out and the binding breaking? what do you do with these old bibles?


do you just throw them away? pack them with your old newspapers and sell to the 'old newspaper man'? or do you just pack them with your usual rubbish and cart them off to the rubbish dump?


what do the jews in the past do with their old manuscripts and scriptures? what do they do today? i have read of the discovery of the genizah texts, old scrolls discovered in a storeroom ('genizah') in an old synagogue in cairo, egypt.


dr. claude mariotinni has an interesting article (in fact, two articles) on this. read on:


http://www.claudemariottini.com/blog/2008/05/how-to-dispose-of-old-bibles.html


http://www.claudemariottini.com/blog/2008/06/on-bibles-and-manuscripts.html#links