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18 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A week after a settlement reached between Sotheby's, the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem, & other parties regarding the cancelation of the museum's sale of objects, the museum's director announces he's leaving his position at the end of the month.
haaretz.com/israel-news/cu…
For background on the cancelation of the sale:
There's no suggestion from the article that Sheiban's resignation is directly tied to the sale or its being cancelled, and his resignation letter frame things quite differently, but the article does notes that the saga "cast a pall over Sheiban’s tenure as museum director"
Publicly praised, privately the target of a nasty whisper campaign that suggested he was unqualified but that no one wanted to say anything publicly because he was Palestinian.
For more on criticism of Sheiban & his response, see this thread:

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16 Mar
Feels like the IAA is saying *TAKE THAT, MOSES SHAPIRA*
haaretz.com/archaeology/.p…
To be clear, these new find is *not* from Qumran -- it consists of fragments of a slightly later Bar Kokhba scroll from Wadi Murabba'at (Nahal Darga) to the south. Image
The find was part of the operation started in 2017 to survey the Judean Desert.

What Haaretz doesn't tell us -- it's only hinted at by the reference to the Civil Administration -- is that most of the Judean Desert, including Murabba'at, is in the West Bank. Image
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Special #ShapiraBookClub edition:
James Tabor with an interesting but ultimately discouraging post on Shapira's Deuteronomy strips
jamestabor.com/moses-shapira-…
h/t @ReligionProf
What's discouraging is that scholars continue to publicly pronounce that they think blatant forgeries might be genuine & that we need to keep having pointless debates about them for decades.
Here, not just Tabor but archaeologist Shimon Gibson. Image
Look who else think Shapira's Deuteronomy was authentic @arsteinjustnes Image
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Happy to say that my review of Veritas, and the saga of the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” forgery, is now published at @TheTLS.
the-tls.co.uk/articles/verit…
(Note: As usual, the author was not responsible for the title or the lead photo.)
Thanks to @arsteinjustnes @LivLied @papyrologyatman @dana_lande and the rest of the Lying Pen of Scribes project for discussing this book with me.
(But be sure not to blame them for anything in the review itself!)
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11 Feb
Reports of damage by Palestinian road work to Mt. Ebal -- in Area B of the West Bank.
What's actually going on here? Let's take a look . . .
jpost.com/archaeology/jo…
The only English reports I've seen are from right-wing Israeli media, which emphasize the outrage among conservative members of the Knesset and settler organizations.
The best report is from Haaretz, in Hebrew only so far.
(Typically Haaretz publishes these reports in Hebrew first & then translates them into English, so we may see an English version soon.)
haaretz.co.il/news/local/.pr…
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I have a research project on the antiquities market in Jerusalem in the late 19th century and am now seriously regretting not starting in the mid-20th century instead.

Amazing thread (& folder posted by the IAA), may be of interest @arsteinjustnes
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Also thanks to @DrTermagant for pointing out how the Order of St. John in Belfast wanted a copy of Godfrey of Bouillon's sword from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. And that they got it.
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"After seeing the pyramid, all other architecture seems but pastry."
Herman Melville at Giza (Journal Of A Visit To Europe And The Levant 1856-1857) Image
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"A delightful ride across Plain of Sharon [really plain of Philistia] to Jaffa. Quantities of red poppies." Image
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