Chess History: 15th Century Bishop Chess Piece

The bishop is an important chess piece. In the 15th century Renaissance bishop chess piece, the bishop is holding a biblical scroll. You learned about the bible from priests and bishops as they read the scrolls to you.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE. The texts have great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with deuterocanonical and extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. Almost all of the Dead Sea Scrolls are held by the state of Israel in the Shrine of the Book on the grounds of the Israel Museum.

The King James version of the bible was a book that was translated from Hebrew scrolls  into an English  book completed in 1611 for the church of England for King James I of England.

You can learn something from looking at old chess pieces