On Super Bowl broadcast, ‘He Gets Us’ ads featuring Jesus stand out for change-of-pace message
United States AP For the second year in a row, a religious Super Bowl ad campaign promised viewers that Jesus “gets us.” Two commercials shown Sunday night centred Jesus’ message to love your neighbours – even across ideological divides. In one, people of different races, classes and gender expressions have their feet washed, including a woman outside […]
Promoting Jesus: ‘He Gets Us’ organisers hope to spend $US1 billion to promote Jesus. Will anyone care?
Organisers of the ‘He Gets Us’ campaign in the US hope to spend a billion dollars in the next three years to redeem Jesus’ brand. BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports…
US judge orders forfeiture of ancient tablet from Museum of the Bible
RNS A US judge has ordered Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain whose president is Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, to forfeit an ancient tablet bearing a rare fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The clay tablet, roughly the size of an iPhone, was originally brought to the United States by an […]
Museum of the Bible says Oxford professor sold fragments illicitly
RNS As many as 17 ancient Bible fragments that Hobby Lobby’s owner, billionaire Steve Green, bought for the Museum of the Bible were apparently stolen by a world-renowned Oxford University professor, the museum has acknowledged. The acknowledgment builds on a slow drip of revelations over the past two years regarding the problematic origins of many of […]
Museum of the Bible pulls Dead Sea Scroll fragments found to be forged
RNS Since its grand opening nearly a year ago, the Museum of the Bible has exhibited five fragments from the storied Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient parchment fragments discovered 70 years ago in a desert cave. On Monday, the museum acknowledged that the five fragments it had on display were forgeries. They were taken down […]
Museum of the Bible returns medieval manuscript after discovering item’s theft
RNS One year after the Green family – owners of the craft store chain Hobby Lobby and principal sponsors of the Museum of the Bible – agreed to pay a $US3 million fine for illegally importing artifacts from Iraq, the museum is returning a medieval New Testament manuscript to the University of Athens after learning […]
ANTIQUITIES: US HOBBY LOBBY SCANDAL SHINES A LIGHT ON SALE OF ANCIENT ARTIFACTS IN ISRAEL
MICHELE CHABIN, of Religion News Service, reports from Jerusalem…