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Last week, writing in the current issue of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Dr. Frank M. Cross Jr., now at the school in Jerusalem, discussed a part of the Qumran find-27 fragments from the first and second chapters of Samuel I-recently pieced together and translated. Some of his fragments differ from existing Hebrew Biblical texts, and Scholar Cross believes they should be accepted as older and nearer the original than any other extant version. Among the corrections and additions he offers: Eli, the priest, was 90 years old at his death...
...make in the work of those scholars who had a habit of trying to solve a corrupted Biblical text by speculation on the translator's sociological background. The entire job of editing the Qumran texts, now being done jointly by the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem and French Roman Catholic scholars, may take "tens of years," but its results may be impressive. Predicts Biblical Scholar William F. Albright, head of the Oriental Seminar at Johns Hopkins University: "All handbooks on the Bible, early Christianity and the history of Judaism will soon be in need of drastic revision...
...them, life in frontierlike Israel had proved too hard. Most were middle-aged and middle class. Their uncalloused hands were unsuited for the road building, foresting and citrus picking that growing Israel demanded of its immigrants. Wrote one unhappy Rumanian to the Jerusalem Post: "Former industrialists, merchants and intellectuals think themselves lucky now if they can get jobs as night watchmen." They longed for their children, but these the Reds had kept behind in Rumania. They hoped for comfort in the promised land, but found their spirits broken in lonely months in one-roomed tin huts and canvas shacks...
Last week Athenagoras observed his fifth anniversary in a job in which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
Each Christmas Eve the members of Jerusalem's diplomatic corps gather, gorgeous in cocked hats, plumes and silver swords, and retrace the starlit route of the Magi from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. They climax the occasion with midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity...