Archaeology Forces Jew to Take
New View of Bible, Orlinsky Says
As an example, Orlinsky cit-
Archaeology has made it
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
necessary for the Jew to look ed the Babylonian Exile in 586
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—The Histadrut, at the Bible in a way he couldn't B.C.E., the first exile of the
Jews from Israel after the des-
Israel's Labor Federation, Tues- 20 or 30 years ago.
day warned Finance Ministry
Presenting "A New View for truction of the Temple.
Prior to three decades ago,
officials planning to call a strike a Jew" at the annual Temple
Wednesday over wage demands Israel Daniel M. Hass Memorial the destruction was considered
that they will be ousted from Lecture, Prof. Harry Orlinsky as never having happened, he
Histadrut and from the Mapai suggested "how we, as sophisti- said.
"Archaeology opened up a
party if they carry out the walk- cated Americans, should react
new world." With the discov-
out.
to the Bible."
Aharon Becker, Histadrut sec-
Dr. Orlinsky, professor of ery of tablets and other an-
retary general, said "We will Bible at the Hebrew Union Col- tiquities, new light was shed
not tolerate chaos. We will lege-Jewish Institute of Reli- on that era, "proving with-
strike for correct relations be- gion in New York, said that up out a doubt there had been a
tween employer and employes." to 30 years ago, "in all biblical Babylonian Exile," Dr. Orlin-
Those planning to strike are departments of the universities, sky said.
mostly in the tax department, the early history of the Heb-
Other evidence, turned up in
and the walkout would delay rews was shrouded in mystery." excavations of the 1930s and
collection of some 7 million
Recalling his own personal '40s, showed that an error had
pounds ($2,333,000) in taxes.
experience as a student when been made in determining the
The Finance Ministry was he entered the University of age of several destroyed sites
seeking to recruit workers to Toronto, Dr. Orlinsky said, "Of in Palestine. It is now known,
keep the customs, income tax course, in 1928 we were all through re-examination, that
and other revenue offices open, just upstarts. We threw the the. sites at Beit Shemesh date
posing the possibility of clashes Bible overboard because it just back to 586 B.C.E., that there
between strikers and non- wasn't considered authentic." had been complete destruction
strikers.
The great revolutionary by Babylonia.
Dr. Orlinsky recalled another
change as far as the Bible
"I'm only a beer teetotaller was concerned, Dr. Orlinsky personal experience that in-
not a champagne teetotaller."— said, "is linked to the politi- volved the discovery of data re-
G. Bernard Shaw.
cal change of World War I. ferring to the deposed king of
"After that war, Britain and Israel, Jehoiachin, taken as cap-
France took over Western Asia, tive to Babylon.
IF YOU TURN THE
and for the first time there oc-
cs• rit
In 1942, while at Johns Hop-
curred an opportunity to do kins University, Orlinsky was
ra.,
actual exploration. The Turks, asked to help catalog a new
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
with their rotten social order, volume for the library. The
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could not do it. But now, the volume turned out to be letters
British set up a department of of the museum curator of the
antiquities, and a decade later, Reich's Department of Jewish
we came to feel the full impact Affairs, instructed to collect all
j
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
of their explorations."
material related to the Jews
"to prove they were falsifiers
of history."
The rare letters, citing tab-
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lets which proved Israel's
king-in-exile was privileged
in the Babylonian palace,
"thus were one of the ironies
of history: The very govern-
ment that set up a machinery
OF
to destroy Jewish history,
made it possible to authenti-
cate it."
Asked to comment on the
school of higher biblical criti-
cism, which maintains that
most of the Five Books of
Moses were not written con-
temporaneously with their oc-
currences and therefore are not
true, Dr. Orlinsky said that
archaeological findings have
pointed up the authenticity of
a long, oral tradition.
The biblical scholar also was
queried on the wording of the
Shema prayer in the new Torah
and up
1
and up
1
transalation, of which he was
editor-in-chief.
Dr. Orlinsky explained why
his committee chose the words
"Hear 0 Israel, the Lord Our
God is the Lord alone."
1 and up
"Rather than say `. . . the
Lord is one'—one what? The
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Histadrut Threatens
Strike Planners With
Ouster From Mapai