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MISS ADRIENNE SCHON
At a recent cocktail party, Mr.
and Mrs. Isadore Schon of Green-
lawn Ave. announced the engage-
ment of their daughter Adrienne
to Sidney Finkelstein, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert Finkelstein of
Harden Ave., Southfield.
The prospective bridegroom re-
cently was graduated from the De-
troit Institute of Technology.
A May 22 wedding is planned.
Between May 1963, when the
first Israel Bonds fell due, and
the end of 1965, a total of $107,-
745,150 was paid out by the State
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May 1, 1966 the State of Israel
will make the largest single pay-
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Mitchell Dahood, S.J., a former
student of Dr. W. F. Albright, cur-
rently professor of Ugaritic lan-
guage and literature at the Ponti-
fical Biblical Institute in Rome,
one-time guest professor of Old
Testament at Boston College, has
undertaken a most difficult job:
the translation of and the writing
of a new commentary on the
Psalms. As part of the Anchor
Bible series, Doubleday has just
issued his "Psalms' I," his new
translation of Psalms 1 to 50, with
an introduction and commentative
notes.
Father Dahood makes some very
interesting claims. He states that
his translation "differs from ear-
lier efforts in that it is not the
fruit of a confrontation of the Heb-
rew text with the . ancient ver-
sions," that what he is attempting
is "a fresh translation, accom-
panied by a philological commen-
tary, that lays stress on the ras
Shamra-Ugarit texts and other epi-
graphic discoveries made along the
Phenician littoral.
What he does Introduce is a
controversy over the standard
versions as contrasted by his
own and by his assertions that:
"It is not too much to say that
all • future investigations of the
Book of Psalms must deal in-
tensively with the Ugaritic texts
. . Thorough knowledge of
Ugaritic grammar, vocabulary
and style is an absolute prere-
quisite for comparative research
on the part of biblical scholars.
Moreover, the significance of
.Ugaritic for historical grammar,
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Here, too, it is questionable
whether the influence of the Ugar-
itic in Dahood will be as accep-
table as the original.
Father Dahood has introduced
In the Jewish Publication Society's a challenge. Students of the Old
1920 translation, it opens up with: Testament, authorities on the
Psalms, will be faced with an in-
Happy is the man that hath not
teresting controversy, out of which
walked in ,the
should emerge better understand-
counsel of the wicked,
Nor stood in the way of sinners, ing and increased interest in the
Psalms.
Not sat in the seat of the
scornful.
—P. S.
The Dahood translation of these
opening lines reads:
Injurious is the gift that takes
How blest the man who lies not away freedom.—Italian proverb.
a
Dhood's
Text of Psalms, in New Anchor Bible
Introduces Controversy Over Ugaritic Texts
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on which will increasingly rest
our reconstruction of the liter-
ary history of Israel, cannot be
overestimated. Ugaritic was only
dialectically different from an-
cestral Hebrew in the genera-
tions immediately preceding the
Israelite occupation of Canaan.
Ugarit and Canaanite Palestine
shared a common literary tradi-
tion, which profoundly influenc-
ed Israel."
entered
Is Ugaritic so important in
the council of the wicked,
Psalms' translations? Father Da- Nor in the assembly of sinners
NO POINTED TOES
stood,
hood certainly is very strongly in
support of the Ugaritic. Stating
nor in the session of scoffers sat.
In Hack's
that his present work is not a
commentary on Psalms, that "a
PATENT STRAPS
better term would perhaps be a
prolegomenon to a commentary,"
he adds: "The topics usually treat-
ed in a standard commentary, such
as the name 'Psalms,' the title
of the Psalms, their arrangement
and use, the origin and authorship
by
of the Psalms, etc., have been
waived in the interest of the pri-
mary scope of this study, a trans-
and Orchestras
lation and philological commen-
tary which utilizes the linguistic
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information offered by the Ras
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Shamra tablets . . ."
He concedes that Psalms as
such have not yet been unearthed
at Ras Shamra and "the treatment
of these problems therefore will
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proceeds to discuss the Ras Sham-
ra discoveries of 1929, pointing
out that "thousands of tablets in
at least eight different languages
have come to light," placing his
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How, then, does he view the
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Masoretic text? Father Dahood
states: "The reverence of the
ORCHESTRA
Masoretes for the consonantal
text outstripped their knowledge
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of archaic Hebrew poetry: the
result is that their vocalization,
and even their word division,
must sometimes be disregarded
if one is to find the way back
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for instance, discussing the Psalms'
dating, that some psalms belong to
the post-Exilic period; he quotes
a Catholic Biblical Association
speaker at the 1964 meeting that
Psalm cx "is a product of the
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Yahweh is my shepherd,
Mark 25th Anniversity
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Of WJC Research Institute In I green
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NEW YORK (JTA)—The World
Jewish Congress marked the 25th
anniversary of the establishment:
of the Institute of Jewish Affairs
with a luncheon March 31 ad-
dressed by Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
WJC president; Samuel Bronf-
man, WJC vice-president a n d
chairman of its North American
executive; and Dr. Jacob Robinson,
founder of the Institute. During its
quarter century of existence, the
Institute, research arm of the WJC,
has succeeded in locating more
than 5,000 witnesses for testimony
in the trials of many Nazi war
criminals, Bronfman reported.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, April 8, 1966
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me lie down;
Near tranquil waters he will
guide me,
to refresh my being.
He will lead me into luxuriant
pastures,
as befits his name.
Even though I should walk
in the midst of total darkness,
I shall fear no danger
since you are with me.
Your rod and your staff —
behold, they will lead me .. .
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