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Refutes Zeitlin Challenges to Scrolls to Yeshiva Univ.
By SALLY KORNWISE
"There is not a shadow of a
doubt that the Dead Sea Scrolls
are authentic," declared Dr. Im-
manuel Ben-Dor, deputy direc--
for of the Department of Anti-
quities for the State of •Israel,
in an interview following a
speech delivered before the
Zionist Organization in Detroit,
Wednesday night.
Dr. Ben-Dor, an outstanding
Israeli archaeologist who is now
visiting lecturer in Biblical
archaeology at Harvard Divinity
School, spoke a, the Esther Ber-
man branch of the United He-
brew Schools on "Archaeologi-
cal Finds in Israel and Their
Impact on the Bible."
In reply to questions by this
reporter, Dr. Ben-Dor submitted
the following refutations to re-
cent repudiations of the Scrolls
by their chief challenger, Dr.
Solomon Zeitlin, professor at
Dropsie College and editor of
the Jewish Quarterly Review:
(Zeitlin: "It has never been
established that the scrolls were
in a cave.") e -
"Investigations made in
caves which shepherds pur-
ported to find the Scrolls have
yielded fragments of jars in
which the Scrolls were kept
and particles of the exact ma-
terials found with them."
(Z.: "There are contradictory
accounts of the alleged discov-
ery, not only in reference to the
time but also as to by whom.")
"The Oriental mind has the
tendency to exaggerate and
elaborate upon stories." The
Bedouin merchants' and shep-
herds' thinking may not be as
clear-cut as that of a trained
mind.
(Z.: Bones allegedly from
Bar Kochba's time — and au-
thenticating dates for some of
the scrolls found in a cave
could have been remains of men
who hid themselves from the
persecutions of Heraclius when
he conquered Palestine in 628
C.E.)
"There is no more proof for
the latter date," than for the
estimated dates of 165 B.C. to _
235 C.E., submitted by the
Antiquities Department.
(Z.: Brushing aside the pres-
ence of certain anachronistic ex-
pressions found in the Scrolls is
as bad as claiming a document
containing words like "tele-
phone" and "telegraph" to be
from Shakespeare's time.)
"The expressions to which
Zeitlin refers are not in the
same category as 'telephone'
or `telegraph'." The words he
questions are literary expres-
sions, rather than names of
inventions, etc.
To other Zeitlin challenges
that certain techniques and facts
found in the Scrolls are not
verified by renowned historians,
Dr. Ben-Dor replied:- "With the
evidence in the Dead Sea
Scrolls; we must revise our
ideas now. We must change our
stand (based on the authority of
R. Akiba) that the matres lec-
tionis technique in the Isaiah
Scroll was introduced in the 2nd
century, C.E., and that the ideas
and laws in the Scrolls contra-
dict those held by the Essenes,
the people who lived at the time
in which the Scrolls were writ-
ten."
"The excavations, including
pottery and coins, found in the
caves containing the scrolls
prove beyond doubt the au-
thenticity of the Scrolls," the
Israeli archaeological director
stated. •
In his formal lecture, Dr. Ben-
Dor said that archaeological
findings in Israel substantiate
many Biblical assertions. As an
example he pointed out that
Philistine pottery compares al-
most identically with the com-
position and drawings of that
from Mycenaean Greece and af-
firms the Bible's statement that
the Philistines came from the
area of Greece.
rect bad conclusions, he showed.
He explained how the presence
of chariots accompanying horses,
rather than men riding the
horses, on carvings before the
fifth century led to the belief
that an early Biblical Hebrew
expression thought to mean
"the horse and its rider" actu-
ally means "horse and its
charioteer."
Dr. Ben-Dor illustrated his
talk with colored slides of
archaeological excavations.
Rabbi Benjamin H. Gorrelick
presided at the lecture.
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