March 22, 2021
It’s not about espousing our faith
"Visitors at the Saturday opening will enter through 37-foot-high
(11.Conservatives cheered Hobby Lobby in 2014 when the Supreme Court ruled that
the Oklahoma-based retailer and Conestoga Wood Specialties could refuse to cover
contraceptives in employees’ health insurance due to the owners’ religious
beliefs. "We just want to present the facts and let visitors decide. The
eight-level museum in a prime tourist spot two blocks off the National Mall
features the world’s biggest private collection of Torahs, as well as
walk-through scenes of biblical stories such as Noah’s flood and a re-creation
of a Middle Eastern village at the time of Jesus. "They are telling a story of
the Bible that is a particularly American Protestant one," he said by telephone,
noting less or little attention was paid to Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims and
Mormons.
There are items that we will explain ‘here is what our provenance is,’
and if there are holes, we’ll let people know," he said.Joel Baden, a Yale
Divinity School professor and co-author of "Bible Nation," a book on Hobby
Lobby, said the museum did not reflect the full complexity of the
Bible..2-meter-high) brass gates etched with the first 80 lines of the Book of
Genesis from the Bible’s first mechanical printing in the 15th
century.WASHINGTON: Ancient scripts and rocker Elvis Presley’s Bible will be on
display at the $500 million Museum of the Bible, opened this weekend in
Washington after questions about the origin of some of its artifacts and its
portrayal of the holy book.Museum backers say its collections will offer a
scholarly, nonsectarian view of one of history’s most-debated sacred writings,
following revision of the initial mission statement that called for it to "bring
to life the living word of God."
It’s not about espousing our faith," Steve
Green, a Southern Baptist who Textile Printing
suppliers is the museum board’s chairman and president of the Hobby Lobby
craft store chain, told reporters this week.Green said the legal trouble
involved his family and not the museum itself, and that questions had not been
raised about where items the Greens had donated came from. A rooftop garden has
plants mentioned in the Bible, and museum admission is free.Hobby Lobby again
drew headlines in July, when it agreed to pay $3 million and forfeit smuggled
Middle Eastern artifacts obtained for the museum under a settlement with the
U.S. Justice Department.Its 430,000 square feet (40,000 square meters) include a
digital guide and an interactive display that answer questions on the Bible
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