0 Prof. Cordon's Lectures on Ancient Civilization, at W SU N ext Thursday Two lectures by'Dt. Cyrus H. original languages (including Gordon, head of the department cuneiform and hieroglyphs) of Mediterranean studies at because of the revival of Bib- Brandeis University, will mark lical studies. His students have the resumption of the Borman come from all over the United Near Eastern Lecture Series, at States, Europe, the Near East Wayne State University, next and the Far East. In an analysis of his theme Thursday. In the afternoon, Dr. Gordon "The Common Background of will speak on the subject Hebrew and Greek Civilizations," "Canaan and the Origins of West- Prof. Gordon stated: "It is commonly thought that ern Culture." In the evening, at Western Culture has been produced the M'cGregor Meniorial 'Confer- through the blending of two totally alien ingredients: 'secular' Greece ence Center-, at a lecture to be 'spiritual' Israel. It is often said free to the public, with Avern and that these two cultures could not be farther apart, even if they had come from opposite parts of the globe. Actually both cultures evolved in contact with each other in the same eastern half of the Mediterranean. "Hebrew tradition as embodied in the tenth chapter of Genesis in- cludes Yawan (i.e., the Ionian Greeks) in the same Near East order as the Hebrews. Greek tradition re- lates that king Minos was the son of a Phoenician princess; that the Phoenician Cadmus made Greece literate; that the Greek heroes called Danaoi in the Iliad sprang from the Phoenician Danaos; and so forth. The Phoenicians spoke virtually the same language as the Hebrews—no more different from each other than the speech of rural England is from the English of rural America." Sheehein; after her recovery, two of her brothers exacted a bloody re- venge. What emerges from all this is that the Patriarchal Narratives in Genesis share with Ugaritic and Homer the factor of royal epic, in - the same -broad tradition. "Ugarit has touched off a re- valuation of the origins of Western Culture.' To cite only. - one• more il- lustration: The seven-day. week is imbedded in Ugaritic literature, where events often fill a time-span of seven days. We find the same phenomenon in the Creation account of Genesis. and in Homeric Epic. What has happened is. that the seven-day week has reached us in the -West through two parallel chan- •nels, going back to the East Medi- terranean of -the -second millennium B.C. We .name our. days, such as •Sunday, Monday, and Saturday, after the pagan gods of the Grace- Roman antiquity. (the Sun, Moon and Saturn), because the week has reached us through Hellenistic chan- nels. Simultaneously, the week has also reached us through the Bible, with the institution of the Sabbath as the significant contribution of the Hebrews. This approach to Western Culture—as the recipient of the same East Mediterranean heri- tage via. both Israel and Greece— will remain the greatest challenge in the study of ancient history for the foreseeable future." Mayor Asks Help of Israel to Raise Dr. Gordon has deciphered the Jerusalem Population DR. CYRUS. H. GORDON Cohn presiding, he will speak on the subject "The Common Back- ground of Hebrew and Greek Civilization." Some of the most interesting aspects of Dr. Gordon's back- ground are found in his career as an archaeologist in the Near East. He spent six years in the Near East, four of which were as an archaeologist and two of which were for military activities. He was a memher Of the ex- peditions that excavated the Judean city of Tell Beit Mirsim, and the Maccabean fortress of Beth-Zur, as well as expeditions that explored Edom and Moab; and he participated in the first discovery of King Solomon's Mines. He helped excavate the prehistoric mound of Tepe Gawra- and the Assyrian city of Shibaniba (now Tell Billa) in the vicinity of Mosul, Iraq, and assisted Sir C. Leonard Woolley in unearthing the Royal Tombs at Ur. Dr. Gordon was called to Egypt to decipher the Tell el: Amarna tablets excavated in 1933-34, and took part in various archaeological activities in Egypt, Sinai, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. In 1957, 1958 and 1961 he conducted his own explora- tions in East Mediterranean lands, including Israel, Cyprus, Crete and Cythera. During his archaeological years Dr. Gordon was close to the nomadic tribes and villagers, whom he got to know through working with them daily. He ob- taMed firsthand knowledge of the social levels among Muslim, Christian and Jewish groups in the Arab world and Iran. He also spent three winters among the Devil Worshippers who present- ed him to their ruler in Kurdi- stan and initiated him into one of their tribes, the Sheikh Shems tribe on Jebel Sinjar. He ob- tained both historical and lingu- istic background while dealing with natives of the Near East. Dr. Gordon considers his specialty the focusing of new discoveries on Biblical prob- lems. He has trained many graduate students who desire to work on the sources in the language of Minoan Crete and has proved it to be close to Phoenician and Hebrew, showing that prior to 1500 B.C., the en- tire East Mediterranean, includ- ing Greece as well as Palestine, was dominated by the same broad group of Semitic sea-lords, whose ships controlled the water trade routes, leaving the inland routes to other peoples. It turns out that the Hebrew and Greek tra- ditions are basically correct. Thus Greek and Hebrew civiliza- tions are to be regarded as parallel structures built on the same East Mediterranean foun- dation. This will necessitate a reappraisal of the cultural ori- gins of the Hebrews, of the Greek s, and accordingly of Western Civilizaiton. - Analyzing his theme "Canaan- ite Literature and the Origins of Western Culture," Dr. Gordon pointed out: "One of the most important, archaeological discoveries of the century is the collection of clay tablets from Ugarit, on the north coast of Syria. These documents in- clude the literature of the pagan Canaanites, who gave the Hebrew settlers their language and literary foundation. The distinctive contri- bution of the Hebrews is the content —not the language and. literary forms—of the Bible. "Much of the Bible is a conscious reaction to the Canaanite atmos- phere. Scripture tells us not to be like, or do as, the Canaanites. The extent of this reaction is just begin- ning to become clear thanks to the Ugaritic texts. For instance, the Tenth Commandment (`rhou shalt not covet—') cannot be enforced by law. Coveting may be vulgar if it means 'keeping up with the Joneses' but unless it leads us to theft, there is nothing illegal or grossly immoral about it. In fact any person who is not shiftless, is expected to covet to the extent of bestirring himself so as to raise his condition toward the level of his more prosperous, neighbors. The pagan god Baal ap- pears in the Ugaritic tablets as a coveting god. He wants a palace like the other gods, and gets it. He also covets fields and animals. The texts describe his covetousness with the same word (hamad) that appears in the Tenth Commandment. Thus we now know, for the first time, that the Tenth Commandment was evoked by Hebrew opposition to the values of the Baal cult. "The most , important Ugaritic text is the Epic of King Cret, whose name has Cretan affinities. It tells of that king whose destined bride is being withheld from him in the palace of another monarch. Cret marches with his army - and recap- tures her. This is essentially the Helen-of-Troy motif of the Iliad. King Menelaus recovers his wife Helen from the walled city of King Priam. Before the discovery of the Ugaritic tablets, it had never oc- curred to scholars to detect royal epic in the Genesis narratives. Abraham and Sarah are not only the ancestors of the Hebrews, they are specifically the progenitors of: kings (Genesis 17:6, 16). Abraham, like Agamemnon, has his own army and is the commander of a coalition that vanquishes another coalition of kings (Genesis 14). Twice Sarah was taken away from Abraham by other kings; and both times Abraham re- covered her. Rebecca was nearly taken away from Isaac by a king. 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