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Yes, all of this is explained in the article. They've been really open about it each time. They haven't really been making the same mistakes each time and they
by James_Henry 7y ago
Yes, all of this is explained in the article. They've been really open about it each time. They haven't really been making the same mistakes each time and they have been working more and more with experts who seem to be running things very well.
From the article:
'The museum is also reevaluating the provenance of all the material in its collection, and it is prepared to return any stolen artifacts to their rightful owners. In 2018, the Museum of the Bible determined that a manuscript in its collection sold several times beforehand had in fact been stolen from the University of Athens in 1991. The museum promptly returned the artifact to Greece.
'Christopher Rollston, a specialist on Semitic texts at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., welcomes the effort to set things right. “The Museum of the Bible did some really bad things eight to 10 years ago, and they were rightly criticized severely,” he says. “I believe that they’ve made a number of attempts in recent years to right the ship.'
- lostlogin 7y agoSaying “8 to ten years ago” in 2018 seems to be suggesting that this is an historic issue ending in 2008-2010 that has been fixed. The latest public story is of items of dubiously origin from Oxford over some years up to 2015, and the saga has been playing out publicly for some time. This isn’t something that happened in the distant past as that last quote makes out. What about the Oxford story is ‘open’? The story mentions investigations from Indian, US, UK, Egyptian and Iraqi authorities. That’s quite a list. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/16/mystery-deepens-oxford-academic-accused-illegally-selling-bible/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/16/mystery-deepens-... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-professor-bible-hobby-lobby.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/world/europe/oxford-profe...