Israel Produces World's Tiniest New Testament

By Julie Stahl

CBN News Middle East Correspondent

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

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MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel -- You may have heard about the Lord's Prayer engraved on the head of a pin. Now an Israeli company says it's created the smallest New Testament in the world.

It's called the Nano Bible.

"All 27 books of the New Testament were printed in a less than 5-millimeter square chip," Russell Ellwanger, CEO of Tower Jazz, the semi-conductor foundry manufacturing the chip, told CBN News.

David Almog is one of the creators who came up with the idea for the Nano Bible.

"We know Jerusalem and we thought about this idea of, and a vision, to create something incorporating the Nano technology that already exists in Israel and basically spreading the energy, the vision that we have for what it means to have the Bible close to you," Almog told CBN News.

To enter the sterile environment of the laboratory in northern Israel where the chips are produced, CBN News suited up.

"Within the manufacturing processes at Tower Jazz, we have anywhere from 500 to 900 processing steps," Ellwanger explained. "What is processed is called a silicon substrate, which is any one of these 25 slices in this box. Every one of these boxes goes through its own specific processing flow."

Using cutting-edge technology, they print the mini-Bibles in the original Greek text.

Greek scholar Jack Pastor, who read from the chip with the help of a computer, affirmed the Bible's veracity.

"This is the part where Matthew is going through the genealogy of both the Jews and of Christ," Pastor said. "There's no question that this is the text of the New Testament."

"We have about over 1,000 books on this 8-inch silicon wafer," Ellwanger said.

The tiny chips are currently made into pendants, and in the future, they'll be crafted into other jewelry.

"We think that something like that can have such a positive impact on people's lives wherever they live," Almog said.

"I think that for people who are believers in the New Testament, it gives a very nice reminder that can be worn as cuff links, can be worn as a pendant around one's neck, of the values one, if they are a believer, should be adhering to," Ellwanger added.

Jerusalem Nano Bible submitted the tiny scriptures to the Guinness Book of World Records. They believe they'll soon hold the record for the tiniest New Testament in the world.