Hobby Lobby’s $400M Bible museum getting largest Israel artifact collection

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On its way to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., which is being built by Hobby Lobby President Steve Green for $400 million, visitors will find the largest collection of exported Israeli artifacts found on the planet.

Slated to open its doors in 2017 after its groundbreaking earlier this year in February, the 430,000-square-foot Museum of the Bible will house Israeli artifacts that include pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls, tablets from Abraham’s time and biblical papyri.

The head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s (IAA) National Treasures Department, Micky Saban, announced on Wednesday that the antiquities being shipped from the Holy Land to the United States capital will comprise of artifacts from the First and Second Temples described in the Bible, as well as antiquities excavated that date back to the Canaanite period, TheBlaze.com reports.

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