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Even while he was learning the pottery code, the young rabbi kept coming back to the historical cadences of the Hebrew Old Testament. He planned his first ambitious explorations in Moab, Edom, Ammon, and the wild desert haunts of the Kenites and Midianites...
...always there was the evidence of the Bible. The Old Testament names numerous "cities," tells roughly where they stood, and suggests where to look for more. When the Israelites under Moses were pressing toward the Promised Land, they asked permission to pass through Edom and Moab on the shore of the Dead Sea, promising to stay on the "king's highway," and not to drink the water of the country. Still the King of Edom refused, forcing the Israelites to detour through the dangerous eastern desert...
...Arab-Israel war transformed this Biblical land of Edom and Moab, nearly tripling its population (now 1,500,000), adding to its territory a remnant of Arab Palestine west of the Jordan River, and swelling the capital of Amman from a scraggly town of 35,000 into a lusty, horn-tooting city of 200,000. A sophisticated and embittered lot, the West Bankers captured most of the country's commerce, filled half the 40 seats in Parliament, and poured out vituperation toward the West -at Israel, and at the U.S., which in their eyes gave their birthright...
...Land, and the pastor came back loaded with color slides and notes, from which he has been making carefully constructed, well illustrated lecture-sermons. Topics, announced as much as four months in advance, include such eye-catchers as "Where Did Cain Get His Wife?"* and "The Lost. City of Edom and Obadiah's Strange Message...
Gerald Kilb Vogel '50, Economics; Richard Allen Webster '50, Philosophy; William Vandervoort Whitehead '50, English; David Herndon Wright '50, Fine Arts; Harrison Morris Wright, '50, History; Michael Bezalel Yarmolinsky '50, Biology; Raymond Edward Zelder '50, Economics; Harold Zirin '50, Astronomy; Edward Edom Zukoski '50, Engineering Sciences; Melvin Leonard Zurier '50, Government...