Dead Sea. Community Described in Oppenheimer
B-G Launches Drive for 20,000,000 Pound
WSU Lecture by Monsignor Skehan Guest Speaker at Immigration Fund with Own Contribution
"Despite a crack army which
In a two-hour lecture, illus- in 31 BC there was an earth-
JERUSALEM — Prime Min- is considered one of the best, it
trated by slides, the Very Rev. quake in which 30,000 people Weizmann Fete
is the bitter truth that we are

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Monsignor Patrick William Ske-
han, chairman of the depart-
ment of Semitic and Egyptian
languages and literatures at the
Catholic University of America.
in Washington, described "The
Dead Sea Community and Its
Texts."
It was the second in the ser-
ies of Lea and Walter Field
Lectures sponsored by the Se-
mitics department of Wayne
State University, and was given
at the WSU State Hall, Nov. 20.
Msgr. Skehan took his audi-
ence on a tour of the area in-
volved in the discovery of the
Dead Sea Scrolls. He explained
that he is "not a professional
archaeologist," but that his aim
was primarily to show the evi-
dence uncovered by - archaeolo-
gists.
His lecture was a tour of
Kirbat •Qumran and the area
surrounding it, of the caves and
the cisterns and he explained
the thorough search that has
been made for manuscripts to
uncover the past history of
Palestine and its people.
The audience had an oppor-
tunity to see, on a large screen,
the opening in the rocks lead-
ing to the cave where the
Scrolls were found. He also
took his audience on a tour
of the Palestine Museum in Old
Jerusalem where manuscripts
are kept. Many of the manu-
scripts were thrown on the
screen.
Msgr. Skehan pointed out that

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lost their lives. He showed the
destruction that resulted, the
living and assembly rooms that
were unearthed and the thou-
sands of dishes that were
broken in one pantry as a re-
sult of the quake.
He said the findings showed,
through the uncovered broken
pottery, that the community
of Qumran could employ a
full time potter. He also
showed -,ulications of the pro-
longed occupancy of a relig-
ious comumnity in that area.
Among the documents
flashed on the screen was a
fragment of the Letter of Jere-
miah and other scrolls. Pre-
sumably, he said, there was a
Hebrew text, of the Jeremiah
letter, but it was never found.
He referred to the discov-
eries by the late Prof. Sukenik
of the Hebrew University.
The slides showed the Sa-
maritans and their Scroll which
they claim dates back to a gen-
eration after Moses—and he
added that it most probably
belongs to the 6th century.
Msgr. Skehan emphasized
that the Esselte community
cloistered on the shores of
the Dead Sea fixes the back-
ground of the Dead Sea
Scrolls to the year 68 CE. He
said that any attempt to
study material to the contrary
is a waste of time.
Most of Msgr. Skehan's stud-
ies have been in Jordan. He has
never visited Israel.
Msgr. Skehan was introduced
by the Rev. Dr. Edward Peters,
Rector of the Newman Clubs
at Wayne State University.
Presiding at the lecture was
Dr. Abram Spiro, .head of the
WSU Semitics Department. Dr.
Spiro announced that the next
lecture in the series, on Jan:
12, will be delivered by Prof.
H. L. Ginsberg, of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, who will
speak on "The Use of the Bible
in the Dead Sea Community
and in Rabbinic Judaism."
Dr. Spiro also announced
that Msgr. Skehan's lecture will
be rebroadcast at 7 p.m. on
Feb. 5.

Syrian Gunners
Attack Israel

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
long period of relative calm on
Israel's northern frontiers was
apparently at an end this week
as Syrian gunners lobbed mor-
tar shells into Israel territory
and infiltrators were held re-
sponsible for the murder of a
British woman vacationing at a
Lake Tiberias resort.
The renewed activity, it was
assumed, was an attempt to
interfere with Lake Huleh re-
clamation operations. I s r a el
Army sources said that the
SyriansSyrians had opened a
barrage on a bridge and had
machine-gunned the village of
Hulata. It was near Hulata that
the body was found last week.
of Mrs. Kenneth Doran, wife of
a British Embassy attach, who
had been slain by Syrian infil-
trators. A search party found
the woman's body 150 yards
from the frontier. She had been
killed by four sub-machine bul-
lets fired from close range.
A. recently planted mine was
found in an Israeli field along
the Israel-Syrian border north
of Lake Huleh, by a farmer
ploughing the land. The field is
part of a tract whose owner-
ship the Syrians had disputed
two years ago. Dismantled in
the presence of United Nations
observers, the landmine was
found to be of a plastic variety
manufactured in Egypt under
license from an Italian manu-
facturer.

Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer,
director of The Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton,
N. J., will be
the guest
speaker at the
1 5 t h annual
Weizmann re-
ception a n d
dinner, Dec. 2,
at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria, it
was announced
by Arthur B.
Krim, dinner
chairman. Dr.
Oppenheimer
v i s'i d the
Weizmann In-
stitute of Sci- Oppenheimer
ence last May and was elected
an Honorary Fellow of the In-
stitute.
This year's dinner will mark
the sixth anniversary of the
death of Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
Israel's first. President.

UJA Mission Members
Submit Report Today

A report of the Detroit mem-
bers of the UJA mission to
Israel will be presented at the
second meeting of the Detroit
Service Group Luncheon Club,
at noon today, in the audi-
torium of the Fred M. Butzel
Building.

ister David Ben-Gurion Tuesday
launched the Jewish Agency's
20,000,000 pound immigration
loan with a personal subscrip-
tion of 1,000 pounds and a
warning that "we are not yet
certain of our security."
Speaking as chairman of a
public advisory committee for
the loan, Ben-Gurion told com-
mittee members that manpower
was Israel's most urgent need
and cited the fact that the pop-
ulation of the Arab' countries
outnumbered that of Israel 22
to 1.

not yet certain of our security,"
he said.
Other committee members
urged all-out efforts to inspire
world Jewry to maintain and
increase support for the vital
immigration program. Several
million pounds have already
been pledged through banks and
individuals for the loan, it was
announced at the meeting which
hailed a message from Presi-
dent Yitzhak Ben-Zvi that he
was buying the first bond in
the loan.

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