Museum of the Bible in DC

[MillCreek]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/sneak-peek-dcs-huge-new-museum-of-the-bible-includes-lots-of-tech--but-not-a-lot-of-jesus/2017/10/16/1afe67c2-a94d-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.8bbd2f560b9e

I will have to add this to my list of places to visit the next time I am in DC.

[makattak]

As with everything, I'll take what the WaPo says with a grain (or ton) of salt.

Nevertheless, we'll try to check that one out next time we're in the DC area.

[K Frame]

I'm feeling triggered already.

[RevDisk]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/sneak-peek-dcs-huge-new-museum-of-the-bible-includes-lots-of-tech--but-not-a-lot-of-jesus/2017/10/16/1afe67c2-a94d-11e7-92d1-58c702d2d975_story.html?utm_term=.8bbd2f560b9e

I will have to add this to my list of places to visit the next time I am in DC.

Can't read, paywall.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/can-museum-bible-overcome-sins-past
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/oct/16/inside-the-sprawling-controversial-500m-museum-of-the-bible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Bible

The wikipedia is carefully worded. "The Museum is non-sectarian, non-political, and claims it will not proselytize."
Which is not on par with the original filing, "To inspire confidence in the absolute authority and reliability of the Bible."

Museum was largely funded by Steve Green, CEO of Hobby Lobby and ueber evangelical. Hasn't always been smooth. Hobby Lobby got hit with a $3m fine and had to forfeit thousands of smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts that were fraudulently labeled. I wonder how many originated from ISIS looters.

Which would be hilarious. Hobby Lobby directly funding Islamic terrorists to steal cultural artifacts. Reverse Indiana Jones?

[RevDisk]

In fairness, only time will tell between whether it's a real museum that presents history, or just some hokey gimmick. $500m is a lot of money for another Creation Museum

[Perd Hapley]

I somehow accidently got through the pay-wall. The article sounds like it was written by someone that wants the museum of the Bible to be a museum of how religious people are stupid and hateful, and believe the universe was created by a magic unicorn that gave us the Remington bolt-action rifle, so we could protect ourselves from the dinosaurs (that never existed) and the homosexuals.

I don't think a museum of the Bible has to explicitly state that the Bible is inerrant, or divinely-inspired, or that its message opposes various agendas of our present day.

[TechMan]

In fairness, only time will tell between whether it's a real museum that presents history, or just some hokey gimmick. $500m is a lot of money for another Creation Museum

Well at least you can zip line over the Creation Museum.

[bedlamite]

Can't read, paywall.

Copy the url, paste it into google, click the link they give you.

[230RN]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Bible

<neutral yawn>

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/can-museum-bible-overcome-sins-past

The museum’s first nonprofit filing with the Internal Revenue Service in 2010 described its mission as, in part: “To inspire confidence in the absolute authority and reliability of the Bible.” That has since been revised to: “To invite all people to engage with the history, narrative, and impact of the Bible.” Scholars still worry that the museum will use artifacts to further an evangelical view of the Bible as historically accurate and immutable. “[If] archaeology is being used as a means of proving the historicity and accuracy of the biblical text, that is extremely problematic,” says Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and president of the Archaeological Institute of America.

<amused yawn>

Terry

[Perd Hapley]

Scholars still worry that the museum will use artifacts to further an evangelical view of the Bible as historically accurate and immutable. “[If] archaeology is being used as a means of proving the historicity and accuracy of the biblical text, that is extremely problematic,” says Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and president of the Archaeological Institute of America.

Yeah, that would be so terrible.


So the Gilgamesh thing. I actually agree that the Museum should deal directly with the nonsense about the timeline casting doubt on the Bible. It's an easy objection to destroy, so the Museum should go ahead and point out that the oldest account of the flood being outside of the Bible doesn't detract one whit from a traditional view of the Bible's inerrancy or inspiration. Logic - how does that work?