Roberta Mazza: Stolen Fragments | Buch

Cover: 9781503632509 | Stolen Fragments | Roberta Mazza | Buch | Englisch | 2024

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"In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact - a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold. The letter to the Romans was not the only extraordinary piece in the Green collection. They soon announced newly recovered fragments from the Gospels and writings of Sappho. Mazza's quest to confirm the provenance of these priceless fragments revealed shadowy global networks that make big business of ancient manuscripts, from the Greens' Museum of the Bible and world-famous auction houses like Sotheby's and Christie's, to antique shops in Jerusalem and Istanbul, dealers on eBay, and into the collections of renowned museums and universities. Mazza's investigation forces us to ask what happens when the supposed custodians of our ancient heritage act in ways that threaten to destroy it. Stolen Fragments illuminates how these recent dealings are not isolated events, but the inevitable result of longstanding colonial practices and the outcome of generations of scholars who have profited from extracting the cultural heritage of places they claim they wish to preserve. Where is the boundary between protection and exploitation, between scholarship and larceny?"--

Über den Autor

Roberta Mazza is Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Bologna. She previously held positions at the University of Manchester, where she was honorary curator of the Manchester Museum, and at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

One. Out of Egypt

Two. Biblical Beginnings

Three. The Provenance Problem

Four. A Ghostly Fragment

Five. The New Sappho

Six. eBay Papyri

Seven. Turning Point

Eight. Caves of Deception

Nine. Mark, Born Again

Ten. Oxford Thefts

Eleven. Back to Christie's

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Bibliography and Sources

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781503632509
ISBN-10:	1503632504
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Mazza, Roberta
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Maße:	234 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Roberta Mazza
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.09.2024
Gewicht:	0,512 kg

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