Green Collection
The Green Collection ( English for Green Collection , named after its initiator Steve Green ) is a private collection of manuscripts , prints and other objects related to the history of the Bible in Oklahoma City . With over 40,000 pieces, it is one of the largest collections of its kind in the world.
history
The Green Collection was built up in 2009 by Scott Carroll, on behalf of and financed by the evangelical billionaire Steve Green (managing director of the arts and crafts chain Hobby Lobby ). The expansive purchasing policy was favored by the fact that the financial crisis from 2007 onwards forced numerous institutions and private collectors to sell. But there were also illegal purchases, such as the purchase of over 5,500 pieces in December 2010, mainly clay tablets with cuneiform and cylinder seals , which had been smuggled out of Iraq under unexplained circumstances . These were confiscated by the US authorities; In 2017, Green undertook to return the pieces and another 144 cylinder seals of dubious origin, as well as to pay a fine of $ 3 million.
Building a collection for a plan was initially (until 2010) National Museum Biblical (English for National Bible Museum ) in Texas . In 2012, Green decided one other, Museum of the Bible (English for Bible Museum ) in Washington, DC to build. In 2014 Steve Green appointed the German-American New Testament scholar David Trobisch as curator of the Green Collection and founding director of the Museum of the Bible . In contrast to Green, Trobisch is considered an outstanding liberal academic, according to the Washington Post newspaper . His task will therefore be to convince the critics that the collection is not just evangelical propaganda. His calling was seen in academic papyrology circles as a profound step forward for the Green Collection .
In the meantime numerous exhibitions have taken place in cities in the USA , as well as in Jerusalem , the Vatican , Buenos Aires , Havana , Ulm and other places.
Stocks
Manuscripts
Hebrew and Aramaic
- Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls
- Torah scrolls
- Codex Climaci Rescriptus , 6th century, Old and New Testament fragments, in Christian Palestinian Aramaic, palimpsest
- Codex Valmadonna I
Greek
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- Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1780 , 3rd century, Gospel of John ( 39 )
- Papyrus Bodmer XXIV , 3rd century, psalms
- Wyman fragment , 4th century, letter to the Romans
- Codex Climaci Rescriptus , 8th century, Gospels, Palimpsest
- other Oxyrhynchus papyri , including P. Oxy. 1351
Middle English
- Rosebery Rolle , 14./15. Century, Psalter, first acquisition of the collection
German
- Letter from Martin Luther , the day before his excommunication
Further
Letterpresses
- Gutenberg Bible , incomplete
- Luther Bibles and Tracts
- Bible print in the translation of the English reformer John Wycliff
Ceramics
- many sherds, 6000–4300 BC BC (Neolithic)
Web links
- Green Collection website
- Green Collection trismegistos
Individual evidence
- ^ Papyri, the Bible, and the formation of the Green Collection , Post February 16, 2014, accessed September 9, 2016
- ↑ United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby , Department of Justice press release , July 5, 2017, accessed July 5, 2017
- ^ Critics call it evangelical propaganda. Can the Museum of the Bible convert them? , Washington Post on September 4, 2015, accessed September 8, 2016
- ↑ Hobby Lobby's Steve Green has big plans for his Bible museum in Washington, Washington Post . September 12, 2014. Accessed September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Green family Bible museum closer to opening, Baptist Press. March 7, 2014. Accessed September 9, 2015.
- ↑ Critics call it evangelical propaganda. Can the Museum of the Bible convert them?, Washington Post . September 4, 2015. Accessed September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Update on the new Sappho fragments and the Green Collection , accessed September 9, 2016
- ^ A trip to Rome (with a detour on eBay). A Review of Verbum Domini II , accessed September 9, 2016