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It's the @museumofbible thread you've been waiting for. A brief tour through the gift shop! 1/16
First up: you can buy a shofar, and then also a DVD featuring a Messianic Jewish man teaching you how to make "biblical use" of it. 2/16
You can buy this book, which suggests among other things that people need deep-sea diving equipment if they're going to find the Garden of Eden. No author listed. Don't despair, though, bc I've done the research and can say without a doubt that its content is modified from...3/16
THIS 1998 book (without attribution) written by someone called Timothy J. Dailey. You can catch Dailey here talking about alien encounters: 4/16
Next up: this "devotional book" which *does * have authors listed. Both were apparently hired as freelancers online. One reports that they never contacted each other. In Asher Reich's author bio, it indicates that he also writes for Quora. 5/16
Here are screenshots indicating some of the questions he has tackled on that platform 6/16
Next, you can buy this book written by two members of the MOTB "founding family." Pretty clear signs of plagiarism, as I've documented. 7/16
https://twitter.com/JillHicksKeeton/status/1270462365692198916
https://twitter.com/JillHicksKeeton/status/1270462365692198916
A paperweight depicting Vashti 8/16
"Biblical nuts in honey" with this verse quoted in the description: "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the blossoms of the valley" (Song of Solomon 6:11, MSG). 9/16
A "widow's mite" bracelet that makes a parable come to life but also helps its wearer keep it close 10/16
A branded fanny pack 11/16
Gold Bar Nano Bible Necklace
"There is more to this necklace than meets the eye. On the surface is a 1" long rectangular gold piece while the underside reveals a 5×5 mm chip containing the world's smallest Bible. Wear this necklace to carry the Bible close to your heart." 12/16
"There is more to this necklace than meets the eye. On the surface is a 1" long rectangular gold piece while the underside reveals a 5×5 mm chip containing the world's smallest Bible. Wear this necklace to carry the Bible close to your heart." 12/16
There is also a version that simultaneously holds "Holy Water"...by which they mean water from the Jordan River...here's the full description, which indicates the maker makes "emotional jewelry" 13/16
Commemorative pins of DC sites with Bible verses, and one of the MOTB 14/16
A replica of a Dead Sea Scroll, advertised as demonstrating fidelity to 10 Commandments "in the form that has been handed down to us today. (On how DSS are used at MOTB, see @Ludvik_A_K's chapter in our Critical introduction) 15/16
And a bunch of games. Apples to Apples Bible Edition. Has anyone played this? I spy that Billy Graham appears on one card. And a Bible-themed Connect Four 16/16
