Dr. Scott Carroll, left, Green's advisor and director of the Green collection and founder Steve Green.
About 17 months ago, the Green family went on a very expensive shopping spree.
But they didn’t burn the money on Bentleys, vacation homes or exotic yachts. They instead bought up 30,000 rare biblical texts and artifacts that now make up the largest private collection of its kind in the world.
The Greens, of Oklahoma City, are owners of the Hobby Lobby Empire, one of the nation’s leading privately owned arts and crafts retailers. Forbes Magazine puts the family fortune at around $2.5 billion....