re: #45 mmmirele

Looks like a well-known and respected papyrologist from Oxford may have been selling papyri owned by the Egypt Exploration Society to the Green family aka The Museum of the Bible. It’s being investigated.

thedailybeast.com

I would note that another papyrologist, Brent Nongbri, thinks this *might* be complicated by the early history of the EES, where they gave papyri fragments to donors. The EES is opposed to those sales, but they’ve happened…to the Green family, looters of the patrimony of all Christians, indeed of history.

brentnongbri.com

At least if the MotB folks are buying under-the-table papyri from a shady Oxford don, they have a reasonable likelihood of getting genuine antiquities. IIRC, the Greens have been suckered on buying numerous “biblical” fakes. To say nothing of the less-than-sterling provenance of some of their acquisitions….

This Dirk Obbink is said to work at the “Sackler Library University of Oxford” - I read it at first as “Sackler Library University of Oxy” — which it probably well may be…