fliorough Sociological Study of Life in
Antiquity in de Vaux' 'Ancient Israel'
which Dr. William F. Albright,
Rockwell Supporter
Out of Army Job;
Va. Studies Charter
Union Backs
Wildcat Strike
at Jewish Home
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An
To an eminent Catholic most common form of marriage
the distinguished professor of
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Signing
scholar goes the credit for in Israel was monogamy" are
active member of George Rock-
Semitics
and
authority
on
Bibli-
writing a most illuminating and indicated in the early chapters.
well's American Nazi party has of a new contract between the
most informative work on the An explanation is given of cal studies and the ancient been dismissed from his job Jewish Board of Guardians and a
aspects of the life, the practice of mohar—"a sum world, wrote:
the social workers union was threat-
"Father Roland de Vaux, with the Army Map Service,
ened by a new dispute in which
institutions and basic laws of of money which the fiance was
Defense
Department
reported
75 workers at four offices of the
bound to pay to the girl's 0.P., long director of the
ancient Jewry.
this
week.
board went on strike.
Life and father," a custom to be found Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem
Ancient Israel—Its
Notice of the dismisal of
Roland de a
among Palestinian Arabs to and editor of its famous
The 75 workers, members of
Institutions" by
Schuyer
Ferris
was
given
in
a
Revue Biblique, is unusually
Local 1707, Community and So-
Vaux. published by McGraw- this day.
letter
to
Congressman
Seymour
cial Employes Union, AFL-CIO,
The positions of women and well qualified to write an
Hill Book Co. (330 W. 42nd,
authoritative work on the life Halpern of New York, who has walked out in support of the
N V. 36), is monumental, thor- children, inheritance and suc- and institutions of ancient
waged a campaign since last local's demand for reinstatement
ough in research, splendidlylcession rules, funeral and other Israel. He is himself a lead- summer to have Ferris ousted without penalties of fellow-
bibliographically rites are described by de Vaux. ing field archaeologist, ex- from his post.
annotated,
workers who called an unauth-
Dealing with matters of
I
illuminating.
Reasons for the dismissal as orized walk-out last week at the
cavator of the ancient North-
Father de Vaux, who is the law and justice and with
Israelite capital at Tirzah as stated in the Department's let- board's Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls
director of the Ecole Biblique penalties for crimes, the Cath-
well as of the Essene settle- ter were "insubordination, ab- School in Hawthorne, N.Y. The
in .Jordan-held part of Jeru- olic author makes this impor-
ments south of Jericho. He sence without leave and on-duty 54 cottage parents, professional
tant
point
with
reference
to
of
the
Domini-
a function
is also a specialist of distinc- conduct which adversely af- and clerical employes at the
, crucifixion: "Death by cruci-
tion in Biblical scripts and fected morale and work pro- school walked out in protest
can order, is a member of the fixion was a punishment un-
editorial committee which re-
languages as well as an expert duction."
against working conditions.
known
in
the
Old
Testament.
"Bible
de
Jeru-
produced
Halper had demanded that
in the critical study of the
cently
The local at first declared the
salem," the complete translation It is attested among the
Hebrew Bible. To these quali- Ferris be fired after it was Hawthorne walkout illegal. When
of the Bible from Hebrew, Persians (impalement of
fications he adds a historian's learned that the map specialist the workers were fired and re-
Greek and Aramaic into French. crucifixon), sporadically
grasp of social, political and had provided the so-called "hate fused reinstatement without pen-
Active in archaeological en- among the Greeks, frequently
religious phenomena and in• bus" which toured the South alties, the local announced sup-
among
the
Romans.
The
first
deavors, he did research work
stitutions. The present volume last summer manned by Rock- port of their walkout. The Board
mention
of
it
in
Palestine
in the caves of the Dead Sea
is without a peer in its field." well's followers. The Defense of Guardians was one of six
occurs
in
Flavius
Josephus,
Scrolls from 1948 to 1958, at
In his explanations of the Department had previously told Jewish welfare agencies with
writing
of
the
persecution
lihirbet Qumran and Feshkha.
cults, of the original of sacri- Halpern that such charges were which the union reached agree-
under
Antiochus
Epiphanes."
His "Ancient Israel" ap-
fice rituals and their religious insufficient grounds for dismis-
pears in an excellent transla- Various means of punishment significance, of the priesthood sal. Ferris' newest difficulties ment last week after extending
prior contracts with a threat to
are
enumerated,
and
the
author
the
French
by
John
tion from
and the altars; de Vaux' began some ten days ago when
McHugh. It contains a Bibli- points to leniencies in meeting analyses of the military, eco- he was arrested in connection strike.
cal index of 6,000 references, out judgment. He comments on nomic and other factors of life with picketing at a showing here
3,000 entries in a general the retaliatory laws and states: in ancient Israel, of administra- of the film, "Judgment at Nu- Anti-Israel Group
index and 1,000 bibliographi- I "The law of retaliation, how- tion and finance, of the calen- remberg."
Starts in Canada
ever, the lex talionis, is expressed dar, of weights and measures,
In other news of Rockwell, a
cal items.
TORONTO — A group calling
While this significant work in all its crudeness: 'life for of all aspects of the ancient bill to revoke the state charter
will prove invaluable for Bibli- life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life of our people—in . these and of the American Nazi party was itself "The Canadian Friends of
cal and archaeological students, hand for hand, foot for foot; many• more of the elements of to be taken up at the Virginia the Middle East," with head-
and students of ancient history, burning for burning, bruise for the life of Israel and its institu- State Assembly this week. The quarters in London, Ont., has
it has 'great merit also for lay bruise, wound for wound' (Ex. tions, the Catholic scholar has bill was reported out of the launched a vicious campaign
readers who will find mines 21:23-25; Lev, 24:19-20; Deut. enriched Biblical literature. As General Laws Committee of the against Israel and Jews, basing,
of information about ancient 19:21). But this formula seems Prof. Albright states, de Vaux' Virginia State House of Dele- its material on propaganda dis-
seminated from Cairo by the
times and the mores of the to have lost, its force, merely "Ancient Israel" is, indeed, gates last Friday.
anti-Jewish bureau headed by
ancient people of Israel. asserting the principle of pro- "without a peer in its field."
Rockwell appearing at a hear- former Nazi Johannes von Leers.
The author-researcher shows portionate compensation. In
ing before the legislative com-
how tribal and family organ- Exodus it is in fact followed
mittee last week, said that his
izations and the nomadic cus- immediately by a law which
organization had adopted the
toms of the early Canaanites orders the liberation of a slave Women Labor Zionists Nazi title to gain publicity. He
Rated No. 1 in the U.S.A.
left their marks on life in in compensation for a loss of in Israel Asked to
claimed that his group was made
Come in and see why before
Israel. lie has made a thorough an eye or a tooth, and it is Help Stabilize Prices
up of conservatives fighting
you buy 1 Quist
study of civil, policial, military preceded by a law which, for
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TEL AVIV — Delegates to the
Specialists
and religious institutions and a wound inflicted in a fight,
Since 1934
National
Conference
of
the
his analyses of the develop- orders only the payment of
Set the pace in the game of
18961 Wyoming
Moetzet
Ha-Poalot,
the
women's
(7 Mile)
merits of the synagogue, of the compensation and medical ex-
life—it's
hard
to
catch
up
once
342-16(10
Sabbath and of all Jewish feasts penses. Only . in one case is labor Zionist movement in Is- you fall behind.
are valuable from historical and strict retaliation exacted: the rael, urged Israeli women
sociological viewpoints. guilty murderer must die and Wednesday to support Israel's
Tracing the origin of sync- cannot buy his freedom. The new economic policy by refrain-
The Workmen's Circle of Detroit
gogues, Father de Vaux de- rigor is justified by a religious ing from actions likely to cause
Presents
dares: "Synagogues were reason: the blood which has panic and to help stabilize prices
buildings erected not for been shed has profaned the as shoppers.
The
155
delegates
adopted
a
sacrifice, but for prayer, land in which Yahweh dwells.
reading of the Law and in- Thus again we meet the reli- resolution, after two days of de-
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and even in Jerusalem itself, are so just as all this law?'" tion of more facilitf,:s for kinder-
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tunities
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for
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De Vaux concedes that a longer school day, particularly
a substitute for the Temple
there is "a semblance of justi. in the development areas, artd to
Borenstein's Book Store, 13535 W. 7 Mile Road
services, and that they were
fication" for the view that obligate Moetzet Ha-Poalot mem-
introduced into Palestine by
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bers
to
personal
service
to
help
"real slavery" never existed
Esdras. Other s, however,
in Israel "if we compare Is- absorb newcomers.
think they first came into
rael with classifical antiquity;
existence in Palestine itself
in Israel and the neighboring
after the time of Esdras and
countries, there never existed
Nehemias, or even after the
those enormous gangs of
end of the Persian period. A
slaves which in Greece and
few scholars . consider them
Rome continually threatened
an institution of Palestinan
the balance of social order."
Origin, and pre-exilic; they
The study made by de Vaux
IN ADDITION TO ITS USUAL FACILITIES
would then be a result of the
reform of Josias . . . The of the Jewish festivals will be
IS ADDING
reason for this variety of found most interesting. In ref-
hypotheses is that there is erence to Hanukah, for ex-
nothing really explicit in ample, he refuses to admit that
New for
the Festival was of pagan
ancient texts."
Because the Israelites, at origin, since it was connected
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points out that the Israelites festival and "was not connected
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