A renowned Oxford University professor has been accused of stealing fragments of ancient biblical texts and selling them to Hobby Lobby — which has already been embroiled in similar scandals, an investigation revealed.

Dirk Obbink, a celebrated classics professor, has been accused of selling the historic items without permission to the arts and crafts chain, according to a statement by the Egypt Exploration Society, which owns the collection and launched the investigation.

Those items later ended up at the Washington-based Museum of the Bible — founded by Hobby Lobby’s prominent evangelical Christian owners, the Green family, the statement said.

The Museum of the Bible told the society that it received 11 fragments from Obbink, most of them in two batches in 2010.

The fragments came from the Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection, housed at Oxford University, which comprises more than 500,000 fragments of literary and documentary texts dating from the third century BC to the seventh century AD, according to its website.

Two other items housed at the museum, also determined to be part of the Oxyrhynchus collection, were sold to Hobby Lobby by an antiquities dealer in Israel, museum spokeswoman Heather Cirno told The New York Times.

“The exact circumstances of how those items moved from Oxford to Israel are unknown to us,” Cirno said.

Both the society and the university confirmed Obbink, a lecturer in papyrology and Greek literature was being investigated, though he continues to be employed at Oxford, according to the Guardian.

The professor did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Guardian or the Times.

The exploration society said in its statement that Obbink was removed as general editor of the esteemed collection back in 2016 “primarily because of unsatisfactory discharge of his editorial duties, but also because of concerns, which he did not allay, about his alleged involvement in the marketing of ancient texts.”

Obbink has previously denied selling another prized fragment of the first chapter of the Gospel of Mark to Hobby Lobby, telling The Daily Beast last year that the claim was “not true.”

Obbink, an American, has a Ph.D. from Stanford University and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001, according to the Times.

This wasn’t the first scandal involving ancient artifacts illicitly obtained by Hobby Lobby.

Back in 2017, the chain agreed to hand over thousands of Iraqi artifacts and pay $3 million to settle a civil forfeiture action brought by the Department of Justice.

The items were falsely labelled and smuggled into the country through the United Arab Emirates and Israel, federal prosecutors said.