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 FIND A FINER WINE THAN 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- SEE THE 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 ZALTS WASSER HOLDER I PASSOVER CHOCOLATES unity versus trinity idea didn't In Two Beautiful _Designs • exist at the time this prayer • was composed—we chose to get GAMES FOR CHILDREN across the intention of the MATZOS FROM ISRAEL writer: to show that the Lord Machine and Hand Made is the Only One.' • PASSOVER COSMETICS AND DRUG ITEMS PASSOVER RECORDS I Canadian Churchman This, is for bringing to a Seder. 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