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Big-box arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby will surrender some 5,500 artifacts it purchased illegally and pay $3 million after federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint in New York yesterday, reports Dan Whitcomb at Reuters.
The objects are believed to come from Iraq, where they were smuggled into other Middle Eastern countries. In 2010, they were sent to the United States falsely labeled as clay tiles.
[...] The items include 144 cylinder seals, used to roll decorative images onto clay, as well as clay bullae, which were used to create wax tokens to authenticate documents. The majority of the items are cuneiform tablets. Cuneiform is a type of writing developed about 6,000 years ago in what is now southern Iraq, Smithsonian.com's Anne Trubek reports. Over time, the writing, which looks like a series of lines and triangles impressed into palm-size pieces of wet clay, was used for over a dozen ancient languages, much like the Roman alphabet for most European and Romance languages.
So, why was a craft chain buying ancient Iraqi artifacts in the first place? Whitcomb reports that company president Steve Green is the founder of the Museum of the Bible, now under construction in Washington, D.C. He began acquiring artifacts for the museum, including the forfeited items, in 2009.
Also at NYT. DoJ and Hobby Lobby statements.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @05:03PM (4 children)
You're going about this all wrong. What we need is an awareness campaign making sure that Christians know that if they eat bacon or other pork products, Yahweh will torture them for all eternity in hell and then afterwards throw them into a lake of fire after the white throne judgement. They need to know that name-dropping Jesus doesn't mean that Yahweh is ok with them eating pork. We have to save their souls.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @07:10PM (3 children)
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. (Deut. 22:11)
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @08:06PM (2 children)
What version is that?
I get KJV: "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together." ASV: "Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together." NIV: "Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together." MSG: "Don’t wear clothes of mixed fabrics, wool and linen together."
At any rate, this is another important rule, and the soul of every Christian who wears mixed fibers is at risk! I'm glad you pointed that out!
Personally I recommend hemp fiber, which should be in the clear. It's durable, soft, and comfortable. Perhaps that's what Yahweh was going for as well. Christians need to begin wearing clothes made with hemp fiber in addition to avoiding bacon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @08:55PM
durable, soft, and comfortable
...and really cheap and easy to grow.
...and it will grow damned near anywhere.
...and it improves the soil.
...and USA.gov once encouraged its cultivation.
Hemp for Victory [google.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @11:30PM
Oops, that was Deut. 22:12 I quoted. It's the KJV.