26 Friday,. September 29, 1978
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Joan Comay's `World's Greatest Story'
Links the Holy Land's Past and Present
A
HAPPY,
HEALTHY &
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NEW YEAR
Sandy Friedman
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Joan Comay subtitled her also relates to current his-
newest book, "The World's -tory.
Mrs. Comay, who has to
Greatest Story" (Holt,
Rinehart and Winston) as her credit a number of prev-
"The Epic of the Jewish iously published notable
People in Biblical Times." works, including "Who's
While it is primarily just Who the Old Testament,"
that, it is much more. While "Who's Who in the New Tes-
summarizing the Bible as tament," guide books to Is-
Jewish history of the past, rael and a number of other
her new book serving as a impressive works on Israel
commentary on the Torah and Jewish history, pro-
and the Prophets, "The vides relevant material in
World's Greatest \ Story" the new book.
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"The name of Palestine
was derived from Philis-
tia (in Hebrew, Peleshet),
the territory of the Philis-
tines, who had settled in
the coastal plain in 17th
"When it comes to the his-
torical narrative of the Old Century BCE. After the
Testament archeological emperor Hadrian
crushed the revolt of his
evidence bears out the gen-
eral background of events Jewish subjects under
and sometimes confirms Bar-Kokhba, in 132-135
CE, he officially called
specific details."
the
country Palestina in
She asserts: "In assessing
the exact degree of accuracy order to eradicate the
in the historical books two name of Judea — in the-
factors must be kept in – same way as he gave
mind. Firstly, as a work Jerusalem the Latin
written and re-written over name of Aelia Capitolina.
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of Solomon, the southern
Hebrew kingdom was called
Judah and the 'northern
kingdom Israel.
"Under Persian, Hel-
lenist and Hasmonean rule,
from the Sixth to the First
Centuries BCE, Jerusalem
and the territory round it
retained the name of Judah
— in Hebrew, Yehudah. An
inhabitant was a Yehudi —
the origin of the word Jew.
Judea was the Latinized
form of the name, used
under the Roman occupa-
tion.
"Eretz Yisrael (the Lana
JOAN COMAY
of Israel) was not a biblical
Chapters on the Land of term for the whole country.
the Bible. "The Near East It is used once in the histori-
Setting" and "Digging Up - cal books to indicate the
the Past" link the past with area actually occupied by
the present and make the Israelite tribes (I Sarin.
13:19) and once for the
archeology a factor in the
study of the story of the northern kingdom of Israel
(2 Kings 5:2). The name has
Jewish people's past as re-
been regularly used by Jews
corded in Holy Scriptures.
She points out that two .in the post-biblical period
centuries ago "It was re- from the time of the. Mis-
garded as heresy to hriah, the compilation of
doubt-that every word in Jewish laws produced in the
the Bible was a direct re- Second Century CE.
,1sel Smell lesewl WOLIN
"The word Palestine re-
many centuries, the Old
Testament blends together mained in use in the West as
different ideas and ways of a name for the Holy Land.
life at different periods in But after Roman times
the Hebrew national saga there was no political or ter-
. . . . The second and more ritorial entity officially
basic factor is the spirit in called by that name, until it
which generations of un- was revived under the
known biblical scribes ap- British Mandate at the end
proached their task. of World War I. The name
"They did not purport to disappeared again from the
be 'objective' historians in map at the end of the Man-
the modern sense. Their date in 1948, when the state
overriding theme was a of Israel was established."
theological one. A single A chapter impressively
- and invisible Deity was in - described, Joan Comay's
control of all human affairs. "The World's Greatest
A special covenant defined Story" is a welcome addition
the relations between God to Jewish history. It adds
and-his chosen people." immensely to the valuable
Describing "The Land," set of scholarly works pro-
Mrs. Comay lists the names , duced by the author who has
given to the land: - . earned a place as an activist
"Egyptian texts before for Jewry and Israel and
the Israelite conquest their literary ranks.
name
Envoys Meet
Canaan for the area be-
UNITED.
NATIONS
tween the Jordan River
I - -
and the coast. It extended. (JTA) — Yehuda Blum, 1 0
rael's Ambassador to
up to what is now Leba-
United Nations, met Frid
non and southern Syria,
with the president of the
did
not
include
but
General Assembly, Foreign
Transjordan. The word
Minister Indolocio Liovano
Canaan probably means
of Colombia.
`Land of the Purple,' a
The two diplomats di's-
reference to the cele-
cussed issues of mutual
brated purple dye extra-
cted from a type of mol- ' interest to Israel and Col-
ombia.
-lusc on the shore.
Liovano told Blum he
"The united kingdom of
Saul, David and Solomon would do his best to conduct
may have carried the name a "moderate" Assembly
of Israel, but that is when the Mideast issues are
nowhere explicitly stated. debated. The meeting with
After the split in the monar- Blum was at Liovano's re-
chy that followed the death quest.
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