Re: EES statement on Obbink

James Spinti <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:57 -0500
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A couple more updates:

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> On Oct 14, 2019, at 3:31 PM, david meadows <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sue
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>> --
>> 
>> Susan O. Shapiro
>> 
>> Associate Professor of History and Classics
>> 
>> Utah State University
>> 
>> 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, <
>> 
>>    [email protected]> wrote:
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>>> What does he have to do to get arrested?
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>>> DW
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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%7Ca447b6eb6afe4a5e153e08d7512cad2d%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C1%7C637067124647123056&amp;sdata=sVYf4RLAY9Gkr7CgnRHKTnl0GhPiCeMCPqqrdIrCD8k%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>>>> The highlights (MOTB = Museum of the Bible; EES = Egypt Exploration
>> 
>>>> Society; emphases mine):
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>>>> With the help of photographs provided by the MOTB, the EES has so
>> far
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>>>>> identified thirteen texts from its collection, twelve on papyrus
>> and
>> 
>>> one on
>> 
>>>>> parchment, all with biblical or related content, which are
>> currently
>> 
>>> held
>> 
>>>>> by the MOTB (see the attached list). *These texts were taken
>> without
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>>>>> authorisation from the EES* ...
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>>>> 
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>>>> *The MOTB has informed the EES that 11 of these pieces came into
>> its care
>> 
>>>>> after being sold to Hobby Lobby Stores by Professor Obbink*, most
>> of
>> 
>>> them
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>>>>> in two batches in 2010.
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>>>> 
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>>>> This is really bad.
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>>>> 
>> 
>>>> Dimitri Nakassis
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