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TopicLet's see what Hobby Lobby is up to
botsrule
03/27/20 2:30:26 PM
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In all fairness to Hobby Lobby they merely got confused about buying Dr. Scholl's from a podiatrist instead of the Dead Sea Scrolls from an archaeologist.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries/
'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries

Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, the president of Hobby Lobby. Starting in 2009, Green and Hobby Lobby spent a fortune buying up biblical manuscripts and artifacts to seed what would become the Museum of the Bibles collection. From 2009 to 2014, Green bought a total of 16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments....

The teams best guess is that the leather itself is ancient, recovered from scraps found in the Judean desert or elsewhere. One tantalizing possibility is that they come from ancient leather shoes or sandals. One of the fragments has a row of what look like artificially made holes, somewhat similar to those found in Roman-era shoes.
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