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Dropsie College Scholar Challenges
Validity of Scrolls Found by Dead Sea

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—A
charge that the validity of the
pre-Christian date ascribed to
the recent discovery of ancient
scrolls comprising the • Book of
Isaiah and other Hebrew writ-
ings is further beclouded by
suppression of the Scroll of the ;
Haftorat, a manuscript suppos-
edly found by ;wandering Be-
douins in a half closed Dead
Sea cave with the manuscript of
the Book of Isaiah, is made by
Solomon Zeitlin, professor of
Rabbinical 'Literature at the
Dropsie College, Philadelphia, in
the winter issue of Jewish
Quarterly Review, published by
Dropsie College.
The charge continues Dr. Zeit-
linFs controversy with such well
known scholars as Dr. F. W. Al-
bright, professor of Semitic
languages at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity; Prof. Eleazar b. Sukenik

Jerusalem's Crime
Rate Reported Low

of Hebrew University, Jerusalem;
Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale Uni-
versity and Dr. John C. Trevor
of Duke. University who have ex-
pressed the opinion that the
Book of Isaiah, and the other
discovered manuscripts, are of
true pre-Christian vintage.
Dr. Zeitlin, basing his charge
of the suppression. of the Hafto-
rat on the testimony of T.
Wechsler, Palestinian authority
on Biblical antiquities, says that
the Scroll of the Haftorat, when
"produced for the scholars of
the world will be another proof-
of the lateness of the other
scrolls, and it will show from
where they came."

Shown Two Manuscripts

Wechsler has stated that in
the summer of 1947, he was
taken as an expert on Hebrew
antiquities to the convent of the
Archbishop of the Syrian Con-
vent in the Old City of Jeru-
salem to give his opinion on
the authenticity and age of
some newly discovered Hebrew
manuscripts. In the presence of
H. St. Stephen of the Library of
the Museum of Rockefeller, he
was shown two manuscripts, one
of which he recognized as the
Book of Isaiah and the other
a Book of Haftorat.
At that time, Wechsler told
the Archbishop that the Hafto-
rat scroll was not of great an-
tiquity, that he believed the
scrolls to have been taken from
the geniza (a depository for the
burial of sacred Hebrew scrolls)
of a synagogue from one of the
countries adjoining Palestine.
In an article in the December,
1949, issue of Haolam, published
in Jerusalem, .Wechsler express-
es the opinion that the Arch-
bishop decided to hide the Haf-
torat scroll because it might
cast doubt on the antiquity of
the Book of Isaiah and "spoil
the business."
Discovery of the supression of
the Haftorat scroll, Dr. Zeitlin
contends, adds new evidence to
his belief that the scrolLs were
planted in the Dead Sea Cave in
recent times and that the story
of their discovery by wandering
Bedouins is a myth.

JERUSALEM—(JTA)—The Je-
rusalem crime rate last year was
extremely low, most police prob-
lems being concerned with traf-
fic violators, Jerusalem Chief of
Police Levi Abrahami told news-
men. The largest theft during
the year, he said, was that of
1,500 pounds worth of hides
take taken from a deserted
store.
Most discouraging feature of
the crime rate, he stated, was
that one-third of all crimes were
committed by juveniles. An en-
couraging feature, and one con-
tradicting a popular misconcep-
tion, was that few of the crim-
inals were recent immigrants
from North Africa.
A major problem fading the
police, he asserted, was the gen-
eral hostility to police evidenced
by the local population. Citizens
of Jerusalem, conditioned by
many years of foreign rule, still
tend to look upon policemen as
enemies, not as friends attempt-
ing to protect- them. To counter
this feeling, Chief Abrahami re-
vealed, the police farce has un-
Later Date for Haftorat
dertaken a public education
Dr. Zeitlin says that during
campaign among school chil-
the period of the Second Com-
dren and adults.
monwealth the synagogue serv-
ice did not include assigned
Cite Beth El Centennial readings from the Haftorat, and
the blessings to go with them.
In AJHS Booklet Listing This
only became regular prac-
American Jewish Dates tice in the fifth or Sixth century
after Christ, and inasmuch as
NEW YORK — An illustrated Wechsler states that the Hafto-
pamphlet calling attention to rat he was shown by the Arch-
anniversaries in American Jew- bishop included such assigned
ish history occur'ing in 1950 has chapters and blessings they
been • issued by the American dated the manuscript as not be-
Jewish Historical Society, an ing pre-Christian.
The importance of whether
agency of the National Jewish
the Book of Isaiah and the
Welfare Board (JWB).
C so mmemor ative occasions other Hebrew manuscripts are
range from the 200th anniver- of the pre-Christain era, Dr.
sary of the Jewish Community Zeitlin explains, is that if they
of Charleston, S.C., and its Cong. were, our entire conception of
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim, to Judaism during the . Second
the 50th anniversaries of the Commonwealth and early Chris-
Jewish Agricultural Society and. tianity would have to be re-
National Conference of Jewish valued and our views of both
Christian and early Jewish his-
Social Welfare.
Among organizations celebrat- tory would be changed.
ing 100th anniversaries are five
congregations, including Beth El
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Oscar R. Ewing,

(left) Federal Se-
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Jewish Education
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Ho tel Biltmore,
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