"I have no idea who you are." Let me know where you heard about me and we'll discuss it. " The suspicion is palpable in the message from Lenny Wolfe, an antique dealer in Jerusalem - a job, it is true, spattered by scandals of forgers and looters. After showing off, I am invited to share a coffee at his office - or a whiskey if I spend at the end of the day…
"You can always find a seller if you don't care about the law ," said the Scottish man who arrived in Israel almost fifty years ago. In recent years, the price of any object linked to primitive Christianity, in particular old manuscripts, has soared following a craze by American Evangelicals (whose faith is based more on sacred scriptures, editor's note) . Without forgetting the more sophisticated marketing on the part of antique dealers! ”
Antique dealers under close surveillance
In the Holy Land, around forty specialists display on their shop window a license issued by the Antiquities Authority
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