Re: EES statement on Obbink

Something has been afoot for quite a while ... I the last.month or so he
was stripped of membership from the papyrologist set

On Mon., Oct. 14, 2019, 4:26 p.m. Susan O. Shapiro, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Is it true?  Is there reliable evidence that he did this?  If it is true,
> it is quite shocking.
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> Sue
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> Susan O. Shapiro
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> Associate Professor of History and Classics
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> Utah State University
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> Senior Editor, Mediterranean Studies
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> On 10/14/19, 12:56 PM, "Classical Greek and Latin Discussion Group on
> behalf of david meadows" <[email protected] on behalf of
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>     I've long  been wondering if he was working alone in this ....
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>     On Mon., Oct. 14, 2019, 2:53 p.m. Diana Wright, <
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>     [email protected]> wrote:
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>     > What does he have to do to get arrested?
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>     > On 10/14/2019 12:15 PM, Dimitri Nakassis wrote:
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>     > > This statement was just released today:
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> https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ees.ac.uk%2Fnews%2Fprofessor-obbink-and-missing-ees-papyri&amp;data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7Cb59ae77e6c4c452b088f08d750e57414%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C637066818735111135&amp;sdata=qZX7eh9V7wNY6lwrp%2FDkcMRCly4HBTeVXP0invD8Lmo%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>     > > The highlights (MOTB = Museum of the Bible; EES = Egypt Exploration
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>     > > Society; emphases mine):
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>     > > With the help of photographs provided by the MOTB, the EES has so
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>     > >> identified thirteen texts from its collection, twelve on papyrus
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>     > >> parchment, all with biblical or related content, which are
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>     > >> by the MOTB (see the attached list). *These texts were taken
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>     > >> authorisation from the EES* ...
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>     > > *The MOTB has informed the EES that 11 of these pieces came into
> its care
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>     > >> after being sold to Hobby Lobby Stores by Professor Obbink*, most
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>     > >> in two batches in 2010.
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>     > > This is really bad.
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>     > > Dimitri Nakassis
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