Saturday, September 01, 2018

Review of the MOTB Jerusalem and Rome exhibition

BIBLE HISTORY DAILY: A Review of Jerusalem and Rome: Cultures in Context in the First Century CE (Cavan Concannon).
“What was life like over 2,000 years ago? Discover the dynamic story of the First Century, from the daily lives of ordinary people to the greatest struggle for autonomy in the history of the Roman Empire in the museum’s largest temporary exhibit!”

So reads a tweet sent out by the Museum of the Bible (MOTB) on August 4, 2018, announcing the opening of Jerusalem and Rome: Cultures in Context in the First Century CE—a temporary exhibit highlighting archaeological objects on loan from and curated by the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem that aspires to tell a complicated story of Jewish life in Palestine in the first century CE.

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The problems with the information provided by the MOTB tour guides are disquieting. That said, my general experience with tour guides is that their information is muddled - except in the rare cases when the guide is an expert specialist.

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