zenosanalytic reblogged
Unfathomably based way to use AI.
#now THIS is ethical(via@roach-works) XD Agreed!
zenosanalytic reblogged
‘Hobby lobby stole the epic of Gilgamesh’ sounds insane and unbelievable if you didn’t already know. This was a while ago but I’ll never shut up bc this is insane.
Hobby lobby stole the epic of Gilgamesh
Hobby lobby stole the epic of Gilgamesh
Hobby lobby stole the epic of Gilgamesh
Now why did they do this? Hobby lobby is run by Christians and Christians don’t like the epic of Gilgamesh bc it also contains a flood myth that they feel causes question to the Bible
#hotvampireadjacent#Hobby Lobby#Antiquities Looting#Antiquities Smuggling#The Epic of Gilgamesh#The Gilgamesh Dream Tablet#informative reblogs#Holy Shit they stole the DREAM TABLET?!??!#I didn't realize they'd trafficked something THAT important(or maybe I forgot)#also I wouldnt put much stock into the claim re their motivation here#from what I understand HB was just throwing cash at anybody with looted antiquities#whole damn family ought to be in prison for it if you ask me#minitagrambles
zenosanalytic reblogged
So hey, I need everyone to go read this article written about the Hobby Lobby artifact theft saga, in the style of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Hear the tale of United States of America v. Approximately Four Hundred Fifty Ancient Cuneiform Tablets and Approximately Three Thousand Ancient Clay Bullae.
This was the Hobby Lobby, the gathering place of many crafts
And briefly high-end cookwares but only briefly
Where men might come from many leagues distance and say in wonder, “This is a Hobby Lobby!”
And obtain many cubits of fabric for crafts projects ordained by Ea or by Ishtar
I’m in love with the woman who wrote this. I genuinely want to kiss her on the mouth.
zenosanalytic reblogged
It’s especially hilarious when you keep in mind that the main artefact sumgglers around that time were ISIS, who funded their operations with that. So yeah, it’s not a stretch to say that Hobby Lobby funded ISIS
How did Hobby Lobby make everyone forget about that
Never forget Hobby Lobby’s Hammurabi-robbing hobby.
zenosanalytic reblogged
So… Anyone remember when the Hobby Lobby people were busted for smuggling artifacts, and we were all shocked and confused and then forgot about it?
Well, the artifacts they were actually busted for are Mesopotamian clay tablets. But… those aren’t the only artifacts they’ve been dealing in.
I just found out that they have thousands - thousands! - of Torah scrolls, which they then donate to other Evangelicals for financial reasons and political leverage. (In one case, they donated a 16th-century scroll to Liberty University. It was completely unfurled and directly handled in an auditorium. By untrained students.) Almost two thousand of them are sitting in an explicitly Evangelical museum full of supercessionist bullshit, and the text of the largest display talks about how they were “saved” from burial or the genizah.
Saved.
From proper Jewish ritual handling.
By Evangelical Xians.
Who then donate these things to other Evangelicals who mishandle them.
For money.
I… I think I’m going to cry.
jewishhenna
I was just about to post this! I even got a little shout-out in the article. :)
The notion of “build[ing] a Christian museum on the backs of Jewish items” is, as I’ve come to understand in my research of the history of Judaica collecting, goes back several centuries to the origins of the modern museum itself. But it is particularly disturbing to see how this classically-supersessionist and fossilizing language (“God gave those people [Jews] a job, and they did that job well,” Steven Green explains, referring to the “job” of preserving the Torah text in identical copies so that evangelical Christians could prove the Bible’s unerring nature) is intertwined with corporate capitalism and greedy tax evasion. If only there was something in all those Torah scrolls on the subject…
sadfunnytrue
Not okay. Not even a little.
zenosanalytic reblogged
I feel like a Christian arts and crafts store engaging with ISIS in a Mesopotamian tablet smuggling ring should be more than a one-day story.
Hobby Lobby’s Hammurabi robbing hobby
yellowjuice
I can’t believe you’ve done this
zenosanalytic reblogged
So they can’t follow a simple rule outlined in their most significant religious document, but they can force their employees to follow an obscure rule that they pulled out of their ass when they manipulated scripture to fit their agenda? How does that work exactly?