When the Museum of the Bible, which is funded by Hobby Lobby, was created, they went on a huge, decade-long spending spree, buying up Christian artifacts all ov

When the Museum of the Bible, which is funded by Hobby Lobby, was created, they went on a huge, decade-long spending spree, buying up Christian artifacts all over the world. This created so much increased demand that sellers worldwide jacked up their prices, and it also created an opportunity for forgeries and outright theft. The Guardian has a fascinating article about it that focuses on Dirk Obbink, an American papyrus scholar at Oxford University who seems to have been selling papyrus fragments from the collection he was supposed to be cataloguing. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-oxford-the-curious-case-of-the-stolen-gospel https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/jan/09/a-scandal-in-ox...