The president of Hobby Lobby said he is in the process of repatriating 11,500 antiquities to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments, bowing to criticism from scholars and authorities over the ways he amassed a collection for the Museum of the Bible
By Kelly Crow Updated March 27, 2020 12:57 pm ET Hobby Lobby’s president Steve Green said he is in the process of repatriating 11,500 antiquities to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments, bowing to what he called justified criticism from scholars and authorities over the ways he amassed a vast collection for the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
The Bible museum he helped create and open three years ago still sits a few blocks away from the National Mall, stocked with everything from illuminated manuscripts to Elvis Presley’s Bible. Yet even before the museum opened its doors, its curators said they were fielding troubling inquiries from antiquities scholars and U.S. Customs agents about their benefactor’s collecting habits.
Mr. Green said the Bible museum is still discussing ways its curators could keep studying the pieces after they are returned to cultural authorities in Iraq and Egypt. He said the rest of the ancient and pre-modern materials in his collection have now been researched to be sure they contain the necessary records, but provenance research continues on everything else. He and the museum have also installed strict protocols for future acquisitions.
Mr. Green said his team bought the pieces in good faith from an Oxford classics professor, Dirk Obbink, who also helped oversee the Oxyrhynchus collection at the time. Mr. Green said his team bought fragments from Dr. Obbink in 2010 and 2013, but last summer he and the Bible museum told the society it suspected some of its fragments might have been stolen.
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