Breitbart: The public can now–after years of speculation, sweat, tears, and spiritual guidance–step inside the 430,000 square-foot Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, where they will find a vast collection of 40,000 biblical antiquities that museum officials hope will connect people to the “Book of Books.”
“We invite all people to engage with the Bible,” Tony Zeiss, the executive director of the museum, told reporters at a preview of the museum last week.
“That includes those who are faithful, those who aren’t,” Zeiss said. “Those who are questioning.”
“We want them to come and look,” Zeiss added. “It’s an amazing book.”
“No other book has had the impact on civilization, particularly Western civilization,” Zeiss said.
“We want this museum to be enriching and engaging to all people,” Cary Summers, president of the museum, said. “To that end, we have tapped many of the world’s leading scholars with expertise across many subjects and faith traditions, including those with Jewish, Protestant and Catholic proficiency and perspectives, to help us craft the storylines and narrative themes of this museum.”
The museum is focused around the Green Collection, the world’s largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts, gathered since 2009 by museum founder Steve Green, who also is president of the Hobby Lobby stores.
Artifacts include the Codex Climaci Rescriptus, first edition Bibles and Torah scrolls, and other objects, which are on loan from the Vatican Library and Museum, as well as the Israel Antiquity Authority. The Bible believed to be one that came to America on the Mayflower is also on display. read more here
They’d better not have any of that “islam the the third great Abrahamic religion” crap in there. Let the muslims toot their own godforsaken horn.
Once the mohammadans take over they’ll burn that place to the ground.
I’d like to talk to you about Jesus.
The phrase that shuts down a conversation the quickest. Even if you said it to the Pope he’d be saying “back off freak”
To quote Jim Gaffigan.
jpm, the phrase that shut down a conversation quickest is “Democracy dies in darkness”. I bet this bible museum does a whole lot better business than the media museum…
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All these museums are just deep money pits. It’s ridiculous to think they are worthwhile. A “newseum;” a Bible museum; Really?
Either Muzzies or antifa will try and burn the place down.
@JPM, it’s not your money or the governments so why should you care?
A terrible business model or an example of one of the worst ones may not be any of my concern, but it should be noted that a “museum” for “the Bible” should be offensive if you know anything about the content of the Bible and should be laughable even if you don’t.
jpm; millions of people visit the middle east and the Bible Lands every year. Are they laughable? The Lord said to spread the word. Isn’t that what this does?
Moose, do you even know what a church is?
jpm, are you trying to say that a church is the only place the Word should be discussed?
I’m trying to say Rotty, that a non-secular “museum” of “The Bible” takes what the Bible is and stands it upside down on it’s head. A museum is for the most part, a collection of “things” and how they work. Think National Space Museum. But the Bible is exclusively non-scientific. It is not the study of how things work, it is the study of how we behave or how we should behave and the consequences there of. This “Bible Museum” takes the context from it by removing the religion and trying to represent it with science.
I can guarantee that you, and ThirdTwin and Moose, if you ever go to Washington D.C., the “Bible Museum” is the very last place you three would visit. And rightly so.
A lot of the great art, or really, most of the great art works (in museums today) depict something from the Bible. That is what makes those works beautiful. The idea behind the picture.
A non-secular Museum on the Bible takes it completely out of context. It mocks it in my opinion. It is the Word.