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...married Cody's aunt in 1913, and they have described themselves as "cousins." Cody had helped Wilson obtain a clerical job in the St. Louis Archdiocese that she held for 25 years. She was a prominent guest at religious ceremonies in which Cody participated. She accompanied him to Rome for his 1967 induction into the College of Cardinals...
...biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further. He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic, although Ebla was closer to Ugarit in both geography and chronology. Against a considerable scholarly onslaught, Father Dahood has now become the leading proponent of ties between Ebla and the Bible...
...such theoretical links depend upon transliterations and translations from the tablets themselves, and here the disputes give ample reason for caution. In the hybrid Eblaite language, a single sign can have a dozen meanings. Indeed, Alfonso Archi of the University of Rome, now the Ebla epigrapher, accuses both Pettinato and Dahood of distorting Eblaite religion by mistranslations. Harvard's Frank Cross, an authority on the Old Testament, believes that solid application of the Ebla findings remains a generation or two away. The majority of scholars concur...
...here that Ebla's biblical implications are least open to skepticism. The ancient inscriptions, with their extended bilingual word lists, are almost certain to clear up numerous textual obscurities. When Dahood began his work on Ugaritic and the Old Testament many years ago, a conservative colleague in Rome said: "It's hard to believe that God would make us wait all these years for these dirty tablets to find out what the Bible means." To an extent that is what happened with the Ugarit find, and then the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now Ebla is vying to be come...
...retrieved safe will be opened on television as a gimmicky finale to the documentary. Until then the coffer will rest in the aquarium, not so much for display as for preservation and protection. "Sharks," observes Andersen wryly, "make good guardians." The great moment may be anticlimactic: the Bank of Rome doubts there is any treasure in the safe. If millions in forgotten diamonds do turn up, a great legal tangle could result. Underwriters could sue Gimbel for possession of any treasure on the grounds that they had not legally "abandoned" it. Original owners who had received insurance payments could then...