Museum of the Bible opens in DC

Museum of the Bible  (Photo by fuzheado)

Having a Museum of the Bible so close to the U. S. Capitol has made some people nervous.

Founder Steve Green has gone out of his way to soothe these fears.  Despite his own staunch Christian leanings, Green has teamed up with “a broad group of scholars as advisors,”

including New York University’s Jewish studies professor Lawrence Schiffman.

Green claims that his goal is to educate, rather than to evangelize.  Because the Bible has had such “an impact on our world,” he thinks it’s important that people become more familiar with it.

Nevertheless, some still consider this endeavor to be overly proselytizing.  The Green family has been promoting the use of a Bible-based curriculum in U. S. public schools, and Southern Methodist University’s religious studies professor Mark Chancey has stated:  The museum is a massive advertisement for the curriculum.  This curriculum has been criticized for having Bible lessons that “weren’t neutral.”       

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